Episode 29 - New Weather Value Propositions with Paul Walsh

Show Notes

Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris

Guest: Paul Walsh, CEO of Meteomatics N.A.

Description: “There’s an amazing amount of unclaimed value in businesses bringing in weather and climate data.” That’s from Paul Walsh, CEO of Meteomatics N.A. and our most recent guest on the Triple Point™.  In order to create repeatable business revenue with weather and climate data, Paul also shares his recipe for success that has helped him throughout his fruitful weather business career: Know the weather, Make it actionable with the right analytics, and (most importantly) Integrate it into existing business decision systems.  Finally, we also learn how a vertically-integrated company like Meteomatics creates digital resilience and uses its data and api platform, high-resolution weather modeling, and unique vertical sounder (the Meteodrone) to create value for a wide array of businesses. LISTEN HERE

References:

• Earth’s hottest August on record followed record-breaking June and July (NY Times)
• Behind Libya’s dam catastrophe lies a long trail of conflict and corruption (WSJ)
• Will 2023 break more heat records? Global Temperature Timeseries (NOAA)
• Ep 19 - Air Quality with Eric Klos from Daily Breath (Triple Point™)
• Ep 24 - Commercial Weather Modeling and Services with Brent Shaw (Triple Point™)
• Ep 27 - Weather Modification and Geoengineering (Triple Point™)
• Meteomatics Inc.
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center Outlooks: Temperature | Precipitation | Seasonal
• Some Politicians Want to Research Geoengineering as a Climate Solution. Scientists Are Worried (Time Magazine)
• “First Look Inside an Active pyroCb: FIREX-AQ Study Probes Development of a Wildfire-Driven Thunderstorm” (BAMS)

News

(02:55)

A Military Weather Background Provides a Solid Foundation

(13:24)

Translating Weather Data Into Value and Annual Recurring Revenue: Make it Actionable

(22:28)

Assess the Weather, Tie with Impact Analytics, Integrate into Business Systems

(30:04)

Creating Digital Resilience

(33:58)

A "Scale-Up" Weather Analytics Firm

(36:18)

Vertical Weather Integration: MeteoDrone Sensing, User-Ready Data Cache, Modeling

(38:33)

"Breaking into Businesses" to Deliver Weather Intelligence

(49:48)

"There's an amazing amount of unclaimed value (using weather data) in the business world."

(52:43)

Small Business Starts in Weather

(59:00)

Lightning Round

(1:09:46)