Jane King interviews Dan Leonard, Senior Meteorologist at The Weather Company, an IBM Business. https://weather.com

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The Weather Company, an IBM Business, is the world's leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. The powerful combination of IBM's advanced AI and cloud capabilities with The Weather Company's high-volume weather data, insights, advertising and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world's most accurate (link resides outside ibm.com) forecaster overall, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 400 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel and Weather Underground. ¹ (link resides outside ibm.com)

Universal and powerful, weather has a serious effect on people’s emotions and behaviors. From food and clothing choices to taking shelter after a tornado alert, millions of decisions are made every day based on the weather. Weather also serves a critical role in business intelligence, such as guiding the route a pilot takes to avoid turbulence, when a brand promotes certain products or how an energy company mobilizes its crews after a power outage.

As part of IBM’s commitment to being essential, we are focused on using our knowledge, scale, technology and trust to advance the science of accurate weather forecasting and help people everywhere make better decisions