Weather stories

Aon will host its first Insights Series in Auckland, focusing on risk and resilience with leaders addressing complex challenges across industries in 2025.

Adaptive Insurance and Tokio Marine HCC launch GridProtect, a parametric insurance covering short-term power outages across 18 US states for SMEs.

Aon's Client Trends 2025 report reveals four megatrends—Trade, Technology, Weather, and Workforce—shaping business risks and opportunities globally.

Australian fintech Zeller is launching a regional initiative, offering AUD $10,000 in annual grants to support small businesses with tech and resources amid economic shifts.

Aeeris, behind Australia's Early Warning Network, partners with global forecasting leader Tomorrow.io, marking a breakthrough in risk mitigation and weather predictions for Australia.

Huawei Cloud and the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality launch the pioneering Zhiji Regional Model, an AI-based tool yielding short-term weather forecasts with an unprecedented fine-scale resolution of 3 km, dwarfing the 25 km scope of conventional global models.

Salient Predictions introduces an upgraded model aimed at transforming risk management in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, and insurance, offering advanced foresight for weather-related disasters.

Aeeris, a leading risk assessment company, demonstrated solid financials in Q2 FY24, highlighting a $2.25m cash reserve, no debt, and rising revenue from new and recurring sources, largely led by its Hail product suite.

AI-driven transformation is set to revolutionise Australia's freight industry, addressing challenges like driver shortages, underutilisation of capacity, and demand for real-time pricing and visibility.

A global team of climate scientists scoops the first ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at the SC23 conference.

Huawei’s Pangu-Weather AI model, which can predict weather events in seconds, is released to the public for free.

SA Power Networks has used state-of-the-art technology to inform, manage and accelerate its response to the River Murray flood event.

WyreStorm has partnered with Sealoc to release the industry’s first weather-protected audio visual (AV) over internet protocol (IP) receiver.

Decades of research have led to rapid progress in AI. Google has announced three new ways people are poised to benefit.

AccuWeather partners with Facebook to launch an AI chatbot on Messenger, promising hyper-local, precise forecasts.

​Swirl Networks and AccuWeather have partnered to bring advanced, real-time weather targeting capabilities to indoor mobile location marketing.

Step into the storm with AccuWeather's new VR app, offering immersive 360-degree weather experiences in collaboration with Samsung.

Spotify's Climatune uses AccuWeather data, creating playlists reflecting your city's mood from rain’s lullabies to sunshine bops.

AccuWeather's 360-degree weather videos have led to a 400% increase in average monthly views across platforms.

UK Pokémon fans undeterred by weather, embracing rain or shine in quest to 'catch 'em all' as game's popularity soars.