AccuWeather Partners with aWhere to Expand Weather Forecasting Insights for Business
World’s most trusted weather brand offers enhanced insights and analytics by combining superior forecasts with gridded historical data through new partnership.
World’s most trusted weather brand offers enhanced insights and analytics by combining superior forecasts with gridded historical data through new partnership.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center, March 22, 2021 – AccuWeather today announced an innovative partnership with aWhere, the leader in gridded historical data. As the severe weather and tornado season gets underway, the partnership enhances AccuWeather's capabilities to provide advanced, tailored weather forecasts and warnings to better prepare people and businesses for any weather conditions.
The partnership will enable organizations to get ahead of weather events by combining trends in historical weather data provided by aWhere with the proven Superior Accuracy of AccuWeather forecasts. The partnership is particularly meaningful to organizations with interests and assets outside of urban areas, where precision in weather forecasting and historical weather Insights are key to protecting people and safeguarding property. This includes organizations and businesses focused on analytics, machine learning, and artificial Intelligence looking to gain better weather knowledge and Insights that may impact business continuity, from supply chain operations, retail logistics and energy production.
“We are extremely pleased to partner with aWhere as AccuWeather continues to expand our superior forecasting capabilities,” said AccuWeather Senior Vice President of Business Development, Paul Lentz.
“aWhere is excited to partner with AccuWeather to empower a broader community to utilize weather data to inform adaptation actions and strategies to help mitigate the impacts of climate change,” said aWhere’s CEO, John Corbett.
AccuWeather’s applied meteorological expertise, from a newly designed, award-winning weather app to the donation of severe weather and local storm warning services to medical facilities at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect people, property and equipment, are part of its consistent commitment to saving lives and protecting assets. The new partnership with aWhere is the latest advancement from the world's most trusted weather brand to help the more than 1.5 billion people, over half of the Fortune 500 and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally who rely on AccuWeather make better weather-impacted decisions.
About AccuWeather and accuweather.com - AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, PA and other offices around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their lives and get more out of their day through digital media properties, such as AccuWeather.com and mobile, as well as radio, television, newspapers, and the 24/7 AccuWeather Network channel. Additionally, AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. Among AccuWeather’s many innovative and award-winning features available free to the public are MinuteCast® Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™. Furthermore, AccuWeather serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of businesses globally.
Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Dr. Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been named “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
AccuWeather, RealFeel and MinuteCast are all registered trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc. AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature, AccuWeather RealImpact, AccuWeather RI, AccuWeather MinuteCast, AccuWeather Network, Minute by Minute and Superior Accuracy are all trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc. All other trademarks, product names and logos are the property of their respective owners.
The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is free at the Google Play store. The AccuWeather iOS app is free at apps.apple.com. Visit accuweather.com for additional information.
About aWhere – aWhere has been delivering resilience and insights to climate change with its 1.9 million virtual weather stations since 1999. aWhere delivers weather-based intelligence to farmers, companies, development agencies and governments to enable data-driven decisions on adapting to increased weather variability. Our accurate, localized, observed weather data and analytical tools are designed for spatial weather analytics, modeling, and machine learning to generate actionable insights for clients in real-time. aWhere is committed to empowering countries and companies by offering training and tools to build internal capacity to integrate weather analytics into organizational decisions to inform operations, logistics, investments, and resilience strategies to adapt to climate change.
Visit aWhere.com for additional information and apps.aWhere.com for access to analytical tools.
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