How does The Weather Network develop its forecast?
The Weather Network takes pride in being able to provide Canadians with accurate, local forecasts for more than 3,000 cities across Canada as well as American and international destinations. The Weather Network is also proud to be Canada’s largest private-sector employer of professional meteorologists. Our team of meteorologists uses a variety of tools to formulate their forecasts including leading-edge proprietary technology developed by The Weather Network. A typical forecast involves the following steps: — Information from several numerical weather models are loaded into the Pelmorex Forecast Engine (PFE) to formulate a forecast. — The Weather Network’s PFE allows our meteorologists to issue weather forecasts for the entire country down to an area 10 km by 10 km – making it one of the most advanced computer forecasting systems in the world. — Once the data is loaded in the PFE, our meteorologists look at weather observations across Canada as well as satellite and radar data. — This
