November Wrap-Up

Challenges and Solutions for Utility Companies’ Use of Weather Forecasts

Weather forecasts play a crucial role in helping utility companies anticipate and prepare for weather events that could impact their operations. However, utility companies also face challenges in understanding and using weather forecasts, and their uncertainties, effectively.

One of the primary challenges for utility companies is to predict unusual weather patterns or extreme weather events that can significantly impact power service. Failing to anticipate such events can result in outages, customer dissatisfaction, and equipment damage. Software data and analytics like ours can be a valuable tool to help identify patterns and trends that are difficult to detect with traditional forecasting methods.

United States Best Places to Live Report: Forecast Skill

The skill of United States weather forecasts in 2022, relative to persistence (assuming that the same weather will continue for the next few days), was greatest in the Midwest and Northeast and lowest in the Southwest, far south, and Hawaii. This is not surprising, considering that the weather varies most from day to day in the Midwest and Northeast and least in the South, so there’s more room for forecasts to improve upon that.Download our full report here.

The Need for Forecast Model Improvement for Extreme Events

Largely because of the lack of precedent, forecasting models are having a very difficult time accurately forecasting extreme weather events. With these extreme events increasing in frequency around the world, this poses several problems in the meteorology community – one of which is how best to warn the public about extreme events if even forecasters do not know it is coming.In this blog, we take a look at a recent case study of Hurricane Otis, which struck Acapulco in Mexico on October 25, 2023.

ForecastAdvisor Featured in The Gadgeteer

The Gadgeteer

recently published an article on one of our sister products, ForecastAdvisor. 

ForecastAdvisor

 is a website that tracks and compares weather app accuracy by specific location. The site allows you to input any zip code in the United States, or browse for a location, and returns a list of the weather providers that have been the most accurate for your location in the previous month and previous year. 

Other November Blogs

Can Artificial Intelligence Weather Forecast Systems Deal With Climate Change?

Assessment of Nowcasting Models’ Accuracy Over New York City

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