The Weather Company

Labs

Where we explore the future of weather technology. Experimenting with new ideas, building prototypes, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Current Experiments

From machine learning breakthroughs to infrastructure innovations, explore what we're building to advance weather technology.

RecreationActive

Ski Report

Ski conditions and reports.

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RecreationActive

Trail Day

Should-I-hike-this-today decisions for famous national park trails — fuses NPS closures, hourly forecast, and lightning radius.

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ExperimentalActive

Sail Forecast Briefing

Marine based forecasts for sailing.

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Surface Weather Interactive Forecast Tool (SWIFT)

Model spread dashboard

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FunActive

High / Low Forecast Game

Guess the temperature high or low for 14 consecutive days without a miss. One wrong answer ends your streak — can you go perfect?

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ExperimentalActive

Historical Pollen

Explore past years of pollen observations from locations around the United States.

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RecreationActive

Wind Surf

Wind and surf conditions for coastal areas.

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ToolsActive

WX Brief

Generate a live forecast widget for any location — activity-focused, AI-narrated, and embeddable in email.

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Travel

Weather-first trip planning — choose who is going and get destinations scored by trip type, with the live forecast to pick the best week to book.

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Historical Climate Explorer

Plan trips with 10 years of weather history. Search any location, compare destinations, and find the best time to visit.

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AI & UXActive

Skyboard

Weather dashboard you talk to. AI agent that dynamically updates UI components, demonstrating richer interactions beyond text streaming.

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Driving Weather

Plan your drive with weather-aware route comparison. See conditions along your journey and compare alternative routes to avoid the worst weather.

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RecreationActive

Golf Weather

Find the best time to play with course-specific forecasts, playability scores, and in-round wind guidance for every hole.

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Severe WeatherActive

Local Storm Reports

Browse and filter NWS storm reports on an interactive map and data table with real-time severe weather, winter, flooding, and tropical event tracking.

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Travel PlanningActive

Airport Intelligence

Live airport weather and delay dashboard. Combines real-time conditions, WFX disruption forecasts, and operational delay data for 77 airports worldwide.

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LifestyleActive

Home & Garden

Gardening forecasts tailored to your town. Know when to plant, water, and harvest based on local conditions, frost dates, and soil conditions.

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Search & IntelligenceActive

Orion Search

Smart weather search that understands your plans. Type activities like running or hiking with locations and times to get personalized forecasts and insights.

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EventsActive

Events

Local event discovery, browse events by DMA region

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LifestyleActive

Car Wash Day

Find the best day to wash your car with a weather-powered car wash forecast dial.

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SafetyActive

Wildfire Tracker

Track active wildfires near you in real time. Get AQI forecasts, smoke arrival times, and fire weather alerts personalized for your location.

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AI & UXActive

Weather Agent Explorer

Explore AI-authored weather narratives — from interactive insight dials to location-aware briefs, powered by the Weather Agent for Narratives.

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Severe Weather & Radar & UXActive

Radar Studio

Track storms with Radar Studio — live and animated multi-pane NEXRAD data — use the inspection tool to view live raw values

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RecreationActive

The Bay Almanac

A daily harvest-and-recreation read for Chesapeake Bay anglers, crabbers, and oyster watermen. 22 locations, 5-day forecast, verdict pill keyed to species in season.

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SportsActive

NFL & College Football Weather

Kickoff and tailgate forecasts for every NFL and Power Four college game. Twenty of the thirty NFL stadiums are open to the sky — see wind, cold, rain and heat risk from four hours before kickoff through postgame.

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Energy & ClimateActive

U.S. Grid Stress

Live grid stress scores for 7 U.S. power regions. Capacity-weighted wind and solar farm forecasts, real-time EIA demand vs. day-ahead, and a per-region stress breakdown.

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Climate & EnvironmentActive

Heat Island Explorer

Visualize urban heat islands on an interactive map. Click any surface to compare temperatures, materials, and heat-stress risk across your city.

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LifestyleActive

The Meridian

A daily weather magazine — hand-illustrated covers, editorial forecasts, and what-to-wear guidance for ten personas, all keyed to your local conditions.

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AI & UXActive

NimbusWave

Tune into a lo-fi weather radio. Your local forecast picks one of eight animated scenes, an AI DJ intro, and a streaming music set to match the sky.

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LifestyleActive

Lustre

A daily beauty edition — makeup, hair, and skin curated to today's local weather, tried on an illustrated model across five skin tones and six hairstyles.

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SportsActive

Shade Line

Will your seat be in the sun? Hour-by-hour sun and shade on 221 real sections across the three US Open show courts — for the next two weeks or the published draw — plus what to wear in it.

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Travel PlanningActive

Leaf Peak

Fall color maps say the same thing every year. This one reads twenty autumns of forest photos to rank which forests peaked on your dates most often — or the best weekends for yours.

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Travel PlanningActive

White Christmas

The likelihood of snow on the ground Christmas morning, by city or ZIP. Climatology now, sharpening to a real forecast in the week before Christmas.

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ExperimentalActive

Proximity™ History

Step back through recent runs of the Proximity™ microscale forecast, hour by hour: temperature, wind, rain, snow and more. Past runs only.

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HealthActive

PawSafe Weather

Whether the pavement is too hot for a dog’s paws, hour by hour. Surface temperature is modelled from sun, cloud and wind rather than read off the air temperature, colour-coded from lower risk to extreme danger, with the seven-second hand test as the check.

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TWC Model Lab

The forecasting workstation our meteorologists built for themselves: weather models, satellite and single-site radar side by side, plus tropical and sounding views.

Built by Ben Papandrea, Global Forecast Operations

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