Category: Weather

Weather analytics has evolved from forecasting whether the game will be played in rain or shine to providing valuable operational intelligence in real time.

While extreme heat has dominated U.S. headlines this summer, the trend has been rising for more than 15 years. Discover how analytics and insights can help OEMs boost community resiliency.

In some parts of the world, losing power regularly and even for days is a normal and accepted part of life. In the U.S., such a situation is unthinkable, but outages are becoming more common with the rise in extreme weather incidents. The following is a brief review of what steps are involved in the power restoration process?

Louis Uccellini embraced teamwork to accomplish mutual goals by establishing private/public partnerships and Impact-Based Decision Support Services, which improves the safety of communities and businesses.

While the strength of Ida at landfall was extraordinary, the epic rain is noteworthy and serves as an example of typical future storms.

Natural disasters caused $268 billion of global economic losses in 2020 and insurance covered only a small portion of that amount.

It is an interesting predicament in the weather community when the official baseline for forecasts creates more ambiguity than certainty. DTN Chief Meteorologist Jim Foerster explains.

A cyclone (Greek Kyklon, meaning moving in a circle, whirling around) is a general term used by meteorologists for a low-pressure system. These systems feed off the energy from warm seas in the tropics or subtropics. The rotation of the cyclone is counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

DTN expert meteorologists are providing daily updates to keep restorations crews, first responders and others safe during recovery efforts . Watch the videos to see developing weather events.

Ida continues to strengthen, along with concern about explosive development shortly before landfall. Chief Meteorologist Jim Foerster provides more detail.