Renny Vandewege | Source | General Manager, Weather and Climate Intelligence at DTN
Renny Vandewege
Renny is an executive leader focused on the impact of weather-events to businesses across a variety of markets, ensuring solutions are innovative, deliver ROI, and are relevant. He is a meteorologist with experience in high-growth business including driving profit and loss expectations, bringing new products to market, sales and product leadership, operations, customer advocacy, and mergers and acquisition. He is a Forbes science contributor writing about the interplay and impact of weather and business.
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DTN
General Manager, Weather and Climate Intelligence
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AI Tools Help to Predict Extreme Weather and Save Lives
Predicting extreme weather events is a tricky business. Changing climate conditions have increased the frequency of severe storms, floods, and heatwaves, along with larger wildfires. As a result, scientists are using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for more accurate forecasts that help to minimize damage and save lives.
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How DTN scaled weather forecast data to petabytes per day
DTN began as a farm information service in the 1980s. Now, as one of the largest private weather services, it has recently taken advantage of new AWS high-performance compute services to dramatically scale its weather forecasting pipeline.
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NYC hires private weather service for public safety after lethal flooding this fall
New York City will hire a private weather service company to get a "second opinion" on forecasting from federal agencies. The move follows deadly flooding after heavy rainfall this past year.
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The application of weather analytics has moved from the weather room to the boardroom to help businesses prevent, plan, and mitigate the impact of weather events, This understanding of the larger role of weather analytics and its application in industry sectors to protect people, operations or our planet is critical to fully shape our climate change roadmap.
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Weather analytics can optimize shipping routes and reduce emissions by up to 5% depending on the type of vessel, the season, and the conditions If there’s bad weather ahead, sophisticated algorithms that use information about the ship and its capabilities and the weather effects on that specific ship can make numerous calculations and provide optimal route alternatives for the mariner.
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I don’t think Tornado Alley is shifting, but I do believe it encompasses a larger area than the traditional Tornado Alley states from Texas through Nebraska.
