Our Mission.
Wherever you are on earth, WSI plays an important role in your life. Our mission is to detect, forecast and visualize the disruptive weather events that affect the safety and property of our clients and their customers. WSI delivers forecasts that are precise in time, location and intensity -- using proprietary algorithms to detect severe weather as it occurs and operating a proprietary high resolution precision forecast system. More importantly, our software and systems directly integrate this real-time information into customers' mission-critical systems, satisfying the most demanding media, aviation, energy trading and utility customers in the world. Whether it’s WSI TrueView for broadcasters, WSI Hubcast for aviators, WSI’s Power Disruption Index for energy traders, WSI's innovative products and services help clients manage uncertainty and the outcomes that matter.

Our Capabilities.
Great care has been taken to build the foundation for WSI mission critical operations. A focus on disruptive weather, our efforts in data quality and our continuous pursuit of innovation all contribute toward clients considering WSI as their trusted business partner. Our top clients include:

Media -- CNN, FOX, NBC, Bloomberg Television
Aviation -- American Airlines, Delta, FedEx, The FAA and Signature
Energy Traders -- Constellation Energy, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley
Utilities -- Entergy, Progress Energy, Cinergy

For consumers, we offer Intellicast.com, one of the highest traffic websites on the internet, and The Weather Channel® Marine™.

WSI is owned by Landmark Communications and is a sister company to The Weather Channel® & weather.com®.

World Leading Meteorological Capabilities. WSI has developed the world’s largest commercial meteorological database, incorporating U.S. National Weather Service, U.S. military, Canadian, British, and Japanese governments, other international agencies, and commercial vendors. WSI has extensive data collection facilities for NEXRAD, satellite, NWP models, lightning and other meteorological data. We receive the NEXRAD data via the NWS Central Radar Distribution System and also through NOAAport as a redundant path. To support the volume of inbound data needed to create the variety of products supplied by WSI, WSI manages 21 on-site satellite dishes.

A Robust Delivery Infrastructure. The heart of WSI’s data capability is our Central Processing Facility. Weather data flows into WSI at the rate of 85 Gbytes per day and is processed in the WSI data center to produce over 12 Gbytes of value added products for our customers. This mission critical data is distributed to thousands of customers through our sophisticated network of high-speed satellite systems, internet servers and landlines. The Central Processing Facility houses a distributed computing architecture comprising of over 450 systems. Distribution of data occurs over 5 carriers on 3 high-speed satellite systems at up to 1Mbps. Internet connectivity is via fiber optic lines. 4 x 2 Mega Watts of onsite diesel power generation is clean enough to be permitted direct access to the local power grid. UPS modules provide roll-over power and system backup at 100% building load for over 30 min – though less than 10 sec is required to draw power from the generators.

WSI's People. While our infrastructure has been built for reliability, the most important contributor to mission critical readiness is our people. WSI operates a 24x7 support facility where forty percent of WSI's 220 employees are degreed meteorologists. Our highly trained and dedicated staff is the key reason that WSI continues to satisfy the most demanding aviation and media customers in the world, including the FAA’s National Command Center, major airline operations centers, NASA Space Centers, and the Navy’s Norfolk and San Diego Meteorological Centers.