The 2019 Black Friday weather forecast should be mostly good news for shoppers and retailers nationwide; weather forecasts point to a decent shopping day.
Black Friday’s “big deal” should not be the weather
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The 2019 Black Friday weather forecast should be mostly good news for shoppers and retailers nationwide; weather forecasts point to a decent shopping day.
Weather is one of the biggest factors for safe and profitable helicopter operations. More than 15 percent of helicopters are used as air ambulances, where they literally depend on weather forecasts for life and death situations.
Nearly every truck in the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) fleet of about 800 is now equipped with road weather technology systems, giving drivers real-time data to determine the best course of action during each storm. Several systems work together to gather and share data with each operator and throughout the agency.
Jim Foerster for Forbes
Festivals and events of all kinds and sizes must have plans in place to be prepared for any type of weather.
November 19-22
DTN will attend the Australian Airports Association National Conference in Broadbeach, Queensland.
With the winter season fast approaching, DTN is excited to announce the addition of a number of new features to our maintenance decision support system, ClearPath Weather.
In the weather industry, there is a lot of buzz around data resolution, usually in the context of numerical weather prediction models that provide the most important input to the weather forecast process.
When trying to determine current and near-term weather conditions, meteorologists rely on three main sources of data: surface observations, radar and satellite. The latter two of these three data sources have seen major technological improvements in the past few years, in turn providing meteorologists with a treasure trove of data that was previously unavailable.
Weather is the most significant supply and demand driver, and one that energy traders watch closely — especially temperature.
The 2019-20 Winter Weather Outlook is showing that winter weather this year appears to be less cold and wet than last year – good news for businesses.