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| Company listings are in alphabetical order. Global/national-level products are followed by regional/local-scale products. |
| AccuWeather | general | Free | Global/national scale | Subscribe to daily weather forecasts and severe weather watches and warnings via email for free. | ||
| Air Science Consultants, Inc. | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Air Science Consultants, inc. provides weather forecasting and environmental consulting. Services are offered to industries such as agriculture, construction, forestry, trucking and shipping, and more. Forensic weather information and expert testimony is also available. | ||
| Associated Science Experts |
general | $ | Global/national-scale | The Associated Science Experts offer forensic discovery and expert witness testimony, environmental solutions and data, as well as instrumentation sales and experience in a broad area of research. | ||
| Atlas Forensic Meteorology | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Atlas Forensic Meteorology are experts in reconstructing the weather for a particular date, time, and location. Atlas Forensic Meteorology provide past weather reports for insurance companies, public and independent adjusters, law and engineering firms, general contractors, and private individuals. Past cases completed include: wind and hail damage, lightning strikes, extreme cold and heat, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, and of course slip-and-falls on snow and or ice. |
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| Atmospheric, LLC | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Atmospheric provides weather services ranging from historical analysis, expert witness reporting, to weather forecasting and research. Atmospheric also provides full stack data analytics solutions for business and marketing operations in addition to teaching and training in meteorology. |
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| AtmosForecast | general | $ | Global/national-scale | AtmosForecast offers customized weather forecasts to a variety of industries, as well as climate research and forensic analyses for legal and insurance sectors. | ||
| Bass Weather Services, LLC | general | $ | Global/national scale | Bass Weather Services provides a range of weather services, including weather forensics and expert witness testimony, personally and professionally tailored to meet the needs of each customer. We conduct comprehensive investigations to determine the conditions, circumstances,causes and impacts due to past weather events and phenomena, and deliver honest, in-depth findings via written report and/or verbal testimony. | ||
| Blue Skies Meteorological Services | general | $ | Global/national scale | Blue Skies Meteorological Services is a full-service weather and climate consulting company based in Gainesville, FL. We are dedicated to rigorous meteorological and climatological analyses, responsive and personal service, creating customized products that meet each client’s unique needs, and presenting complex weather and climate topics in a clear, compelling, and accessible manner. | ||
| Climadata Corporation | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Climadata offers custom forecasts and consulting, products for broadcast and media, expert testimony for cases impacted by weather, and services for special events. Their site also links to http://www.mipronostico.com/, where forecasts and data are available in Spanish. | ||
| Climatological Consulting Corporation | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The Climatological Consulting Corporation offers a wide variety of weather and climate services such as hurricane and storm surge risk, climate change impacts, business weather sensitivity, weather derivatives and tools, and other customized studies. They also offer expert witness services in terms of forensic meteorology and commodities services for the agriculture industry. | ||
| Climaverse, LLC | general | $ | Global/national scale and Regional/local scale services | Climaverse is a weather consulting firm specializing in services ranging from certified weather reporting for the insurance and legal communities to in-depth business intelligence and translation of weather data for any-sized businesses. Areas of expertise include aviation and marine weather, including translation of complex weather data into business intelligence and reporting. | ||
| Climet Systems | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Climet Systems is primarily a forensic climatology organization, reconstructing past conditions to assist litigation, law enforcement, insurance, and investigations. They also offer risk management solutions and services to industries concerned with possible weather conditions. |
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| CompuWeather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | CompuWeather offers forensic weather analysis, consulting and testimony via a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, as well as Weather Data products. | ||
| consultingweather.com | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Dr. Michael Witiw is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, whose consulting experience has included expert testimony, forensic consulting, education, training, etc. His projects have included aviation incidents and radar development. | ||
| Cox Weather Services | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Cox Weather Services offers forensic meteorological services, including expert witness testimony. Businesses and individuals can benefit from consulting and forecasting services, and a weather verification service is available for insurance companies and policy holders. | ||
| Earth Networks | general | $ | Global/national scale | Earth Networks operates the world’s most comprehensive weather networks including hyperlocal real-time observations, lightning detection and trace gas monitoring that helps schools, government agencies and companies with weather intelligence data to help automate decision-making and optimize operations. Operating in over 90 countries, Earth Networks provides customers with services such as weather monitoring, alerting and visualization, real-time lightning detection, and severe weather analytics. More information at www.earthnetworks.com | ||
| ExoConsulting | general | Free/$ | Global/national-scale | ExoConsulting's mission is to provide technical expertise and business insights for client success on and off track. Our weather-related services include business development in the energy weather sector, forensic meteorology, and forecasting services. | ||
| Expert Weather Investigations | general | $ | Global/national-scale | EWI provides forensic meteorology services to law and insurance firms, as well as local, state, and federal government agencies, and other professionals. Their three main areas of consulting services include data retrieval, full analysis reports and presentation graphics, and expert testimony. In assistance to real estate agents and municipal planners, they offer expert weather assessment reports and weather forecasting. | ||
| Fair Skies Consulting | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Fair Skies Consulting provides forecasting services including: Customized weather hazard planning, Storm Ready application preparation and execution, forensic meteorology, forecasting for business & events, and communications & public relations consulting. | ||
| Forensic Weather Consultants | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Forensic Weather Consultants is one of the largest and most reliable weather expert firms in the country. We provide past weather information, meteorological analyses, and written reports for insurance claims, lawsuits, and disputes nationwide. Our work research is very detailed and site-specific. We work as experts on Slip and Fall on Snow/Ice claims, Hail claims, Hurricane wind (or wind vs. storm surge) cases, Wind damage claims, flooding cases, Motor Vehicle Accidents, and most other types of weather-related cases. Our team consists of at least six Certified Consulting Meteorologists, Forensic Meteorologists, data and Computer Modeling experts. Over the past 23 years we've worked on more than 7,300 claims, testified in court more than 115 times, and have been deposed in around 100 depositions. We also provide detailed weather forecasts for corporations whose assets are sensitive to various weather conditions and impacts. | ||
| Freese-Notis Weather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Freese-Notis Weather offers forecasts and consulting to the agriculture and construction industries. Law firms, insurance companies, and businesses can find research, archived radar pictures, and expert testimony for weather-related court cases. They also have a large historical weather database and offer access to high-resolution temperature and rainfall data. | ||
| Fair Skies Consulting | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Fair Skies Consulting provides forecasting services including: Customized weather hazard planning, Storm Ready application preparation and execution, forensic meteorology, forecasting for business & events, and communications & public relations consulting. | ||
| Golden Gate Weather Services | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Golden Gate Weather Services offers consulting for projects requiring meteorological expertise and for special event forecasting. Expert witness services are also available, with experience across a wide variety of meteorological disciplines. | ||
| Haag Global, Inc. | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Haag Global, Inc., is a multi-faceted forensic engineering and consulting company. Haag provides professional services to the legal industry, the insurance industry, corporations, manufacturers, government entities, and individuals. | ||
| How The Weatherworks | general | $ | Global/national-scale | How The Weatherworks provides forensic weather services, including reconstructing past weather events, and interpretation and expert witness testimony. They also provide opportunities for learning, mentoring, and weather camps to educate students about math, science, and meteorology. | ||
| J.S. Held, LLC | General | $ | Global/national-scale | J.S. Held experts have significant experience investigating major loss assignments, aviation mishaps, and personal injury/wrongful death lawsuits throughout North America. Our team includes Certified Consulting Meteorologists (CCMs) who work hand in hand with our accident reconstruction experts, forensic engineers, and building consulting specialists. | ||
| Locus Weather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Locus Weather provides custom weather forecasts, including those for ocean voyages, yacht races, and for general marine use. Also available are forecasts for radio and TV. They offer past weather research and analysis and expert testimony. Also available are weather seminars and courses. | ||
| Metro Weather Service, Inc. | general | Free / $ | Global/national-scale | Users can access free weather discussions and data on their webpage. Custom weather forecasts are also available for film production, radio and television, government and industry, and forensic services. | ||
| Monarch Weather Consulting | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Monarch Weather Consulting, a woman-owned small business, provides an array of weather and climate products from forensic services to custom weather solutions. | ||
| Murray & Trettel | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Murray & Trettel offer customized and operational weather forecasts. Their involvement in meteorological monitoring includes environmental monitoring, data management, and weather instruments. In terms of forensic services, they offer insurance claim verification, snow accumulation reports, and weather expert testimony. | ||
| National Centers for Environmental Information | https://www.ncei.noaa .gov/ |
general | Free/$ | Global/national-scale | NCEI is NOAA's data nerve center for climate, weather, and other environmental records. | |
| National Weather Forecasting, LLC | general | $ | Global/national-scale | National Weather Forecasting, LLC provides custom-made weather forecasts for industries such as aviation, schools, broadcast, marine, utilities/energy, special event, and transportation. Weather instruments are available to purchase. Forensic services are available as well. | ||
| Northern Plains Weather Services, LLC | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Provides consulting services and reports/testimony related to forensic meteorology, weather and forecasting, radar, satellite, severe storms, rainfall and flooding, fog, winter weather, fire weather, applied climate and meteorology, ag weather, education and training, and technical editing. | ||
| National Storm Consultants | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The National Storm Consultants are experts in reconstructing weather events for a particular date, time, and location. NSC provides comprehensive past weather reports for law and engineering firms, insurance companies, general contractors, public and independent adjusters, as well as private individuals. NSC past cases completed include: wind and hail damage, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning strikes, extreme cold and heat, flooding, and personal injury due to slip-and-falls on snow and or ice. | ||
| Praedictix | https://praedictix.com/ forensic-weather/ |
general | $ | Global/national-scale | Praedictix is a Minneapolis-based weather company that offers weather consulting services, forensic weather services, weather broadcasting, and weather graphics. Fueled by a team of degreed, certified meteorologists, our expertise allows us to tailor a personalized weather narrative for our customers going beyond what any app ever could. | |
| Shade Tree Meteorology | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Shade Tree Meteorology provides custom weather services to clients, including reconstruction of past weather events, observations for unfolding weather events, and forecasts for future weather events. Also available are weather emergency plans, severe weather risk assessments, and teacher workshops and seminars. | ||
| StormGeo | General/ tropical/ marine |
$ | Global/national-scale | Description: StormGeo offers site-specific forecasts, monitoring and alerts for all severe weather, including specialization in hurricanes. Weather data can be access through our online platform or via GIS or APIs. | ||
| STWX Strategic | general | $ | Global/national-scale | STWX Strategic provides weather expertise to numerous local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, legal, insurance, and engineering professionals, and general citizens. | Southwest Texas | |
| The Narwhal Group | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The Narwhal Group provides operational support and consulting to the road weather industry, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) initiatives, professional software products, as well as specialized forecasts and forensic/incident meteorology services. | ||
| Vaisala XWeather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Vaisala XWeather powers applications for weather-sensitive businesses, providing product managers, developers & data scientists around the globe unique data points they need for success. Companies taking advantage of the Vaisala XWeather Mapping Platform and Weather API build cutting-edge applications that both generate new revenues and allow businesses to operate more safely and efficiently | ||
| WeatherBank | general | $ | Global/national scale | WeatherBank, Inc. is a completely integrated, full-service, meteorological consulting company providing weather data and products, and custom programming solutions for businesses, government agencies, and the general public. | ||
| WeatherBELL | general | $ | Global/national scale | WeatherBELL Analytics LLC is a meteorological consulting firm that provides customized weather forecasts, data services, and weather intelligence tools to entities exposed to the weather | ||
| WeatherCheck | general | $ | Global/national scale | WeatherCheck monitors properties for hail damage so that insurance carriers, mortgage companies, and property owners can take action. WeatherCheck provides clarity in the midst of dynamic and constantly evolving severe weather conditions, particularly in the 24 hours before and after an event when information is most limited. | ||
| The Weather Medic | general | $ | Global/national-scale | The Weather Medic offers custom weather data and forecasts for industries such as agriculture, construction, film production, insurance, and more. Special forecasts are also available for special events, festivals, weddings, and honeymoons. | ||
| Weather History Research | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Weather History Research is a forensic meteorology company that provides history and research for insurance and legal professionals. Custom report types include hail maps & hail scan reports, slip and fall, lightning, wind, fire, auto mishaps, and general weather data. | ||
| Weather Surveys | general | $ | Global/national-scale | Weather Surveys analyzes data and prepares plain language reports for insurance carriers and attorneys nationwide. Types of investigations include transportation accidents, building collapses, criminal, snow and ice, lightning, visibility, and more. | ||
| WeatherExtreme Ltd. | general | $ | Global/national-scale | WeatherExtreme Ltd. provides research and consulting for different types of severe weather and areas of meteorology. Specific services include forensic meteorology and expert witness, weather forecasting and atmospheric modeling, GIS services, video/film production, custom graphics and animations, and other specialty weather services. | ||
| WeatherPrep | wxprep.com/ | general | $ | Global/national-scale | WeatherPrep is a consulting firm of New York Area Certified Consulting Meteorologists (CCMs) with weather experts in the field of meteorology, weather analysis, and climate forecasting with specialization in snow and ice weather events. We testify and prepare forensic weather reports on the basis of our training and experience review of the discovery materials in each case. Specialties include outdoor event forecasting to satisfy permitting requirements, and emergency weather plan reviews. | |
| WeatherScope | general | $ | Global/national-scale | WeatherScope provides clients with information following a winter or severe weather event. Reports include weather observations, radar data, and a summary. Custom reports on past weather events for a particular location can include radar analysis, temperature, visibility, wind data, lightning strikes, rainfall, snowfall, and hail. | ||
| WeatherTiger | WeatherTiger forensic meteorology | general | $ | Global/national-scale | WeatherTiger provides meteorological consultation to government agencies and leading law firms, advising our clients on complex and high-profile weather cases in Florida and across the country. We have extensive experience working one-on-one with law offices, consumers, and insurers in all aspects of forensic meteorology, and our PhD researchers have access to superior data sources and analysis techniques. We specialize in hurricane- and severe weather-related expert report preparation. | |
| WeatherWorks | general | $ | Global/national-scale | WeatherWorks offers custom Storm Alert services for severe weather and winter storms. They are involved in meteorological consulting and forensic services as well, including certified snowfall totals, certified past weather reports, weather expert testimony, climatology reports, and Winter Risk outlooks. | ||
| West Coast Weather | general | $ | Global/national-scale | West Coast Weather serves clients worldwide in cases of lawsuits and insurance claims involving forensic meteorological cases. Specific services include historical weather data, aircraft accident investigation, severe weather damage reports, past winter weather damage & accidents, and more. | ||
| CT Weather | Paid Services | general | $ | Regional/Local-scale | CT Weather offers a number of fee-based subscription services to residents and companies of Connecticut. These include forensic reports, extensive and detailed storm forecasts, official snowfall total reports, degree day reports, 30-day forecasts, STORM FORCE notifications, NWS alerts, and radio station information. | Connecticut |
| DayWeather, Inc. | general | Free / $ | Regional/Local-scale | DayWeather, Inc. provides customized and road weather forecasting, as well as stratospheric weather forecasting and consulting for the aviation industry. Weather event reconstruction is available as a forensic meteorology service. They have a radio network, where users are able to choose locations to receive weather forecasts 2-3 times a day. DayWeather also sells weather instruments and provides data via webcams on their webpage. Their region covers parts of Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming. | Rocky Mountain West and High Plains | |
| Ed Roy Ltd. Investigations | general | $ | Regional/Local-scale | Ed Roy Ltd. is a business support company offering private investigation services to individuals, businesses, and organizations across Louisiana. They offer a number of specific services, one of which includes meteorological investigations and determining site-specific historical weather conditions at any given time and/or location. | Louisiana | |
| Precision Weather Forecasting, Inc. | general | Free / $ | Regional/Local-scale | Precision Weather Forecasting, Inc. provides site and time specific forecasting for the New England area. Clients such as municipalities, businesses, schools, and hospitals can receive daily forecasts and storm warning alerts. They also offer New England Weather Science, a forensic service including past data and court testimonies. Customers can access basic weather data such as temperatures and radar on their webpage. | New England | |
| Tom Konvicka, Consulting Meteorologist | general | $ | Regional/Local-scale | Over thirty-five years of experience in both civil and criminal matters. Specializations include forensic reconstructions for severe local storms (which includes hail, wind, and tornadoes), tropical cyclones, winter storms, temperature extremes, and wildfires that result in death, injury, and/or property damage. Customized expert forecasting services are also available. | Louisiana/ Mississippi |
