IBM GRAF Builds on The Weather Company's AI and Cloud Capabilities

When it recently launched a new weather model called IBM GRAF, The Weather Company took a big supercomputing step forward. IBM GRAF, with its ability to process weather data from a variety of sources worldwide, enables The Weather Company, an IBM Business, to deliver high-resolution, hourly-updated forecasts around the globe--particularly to regions that have never had them before. But the full power of IBM GRAF to generate local forecasts for the entire world depends on technology that The Weather Company already had in place and is continually refining: artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. When a series of winter storms recently lashed much of the United States, millions of people used The Weather Channel mobile app and weather.com Sophisticated AI algorithms from The Weather Company turn troves of current and historic weather data into recommendations, for example, that can tell an electric utility company where to trim trees to prevent blackouts before the next storm hits.