Host: Ryan Harris Guest: Scott Mackaro, Head of Insights and Innovation, Vaisala X-Weather Description: What if NOAA’s global weather model didn’t exist in 10 years?  It’s a provocative question that challenges conventional wisdom, but it’s a question worth considering as Google, NVIDIA, and others are challenging the weather modeling space with their rapidly advancing AI technology.  The government should still probably play some sort of role in shaping and regulating this potential future paradigm shift similar to how the government regulates the safety of insulin and other pharmac ..read more

Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guest: Matt Stein, CEO, Salient Predictions Description: The atmosphere is the main driver of our daily weather.  But it's the oceans, with its long-term thermodynamic memory, that drive our climate patterns from seasonal, to decadal, and beyond.  NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and an increasing number of private industry companies like Salient Predictions use signals in long-term ocean patterns, soil moisture, sea ice, and snow cover to make much longer predictions than what you might see on your daily weather app.  Such signals give us long-term ..read more

Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guests: Brian LaMarre, NWS Meteorologist in Charge, Tampa Bay Description: In 1900, an estimated 8,000 people lost their lives in the Great Galveston Hurricane that September. Our understanding of hurricane risk has improved immensely since then, but still over 100 were killed just 18 months ago in Hurricane Ian. Risk is defined as the probability of some hazard occurring multiplied by the impact that hazard may have on an individual, population, or system. The first problem here is that humans don't always understand probabilities, and the second problem is that h ..read more

Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris (and Eric Hunt for Episode 23) Guests: All 2023 Guests Description: Welcome to the final Triple Point™ Podcast of the year. And what a year it's been! If you didn't get a chance to listen to our monthly episodes in 2023, this 90-minute episode will get you fully caught up on all the insights you missed, hear some bold predictions and career advice for up and coming leaders, and best of all, end the year sharing some of the hilarious Triple Point™ outtakes. We hope you have a safe and healthy holiday season and look forward to seeing you in 2024 ..read more

Show Notes Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Wayne MacKenzie, Program Manager, NOAA Technology Partnerships Office Description: NOAA’s Technology Partnerships Office serves the U.S. economy by transferring government-developed scientific and technological innovations to commercial applications, facilitating strategic public-private partnerships, and investing in small business research and development.  This multi-use technological development cycle maximizes the government’s original investment in addition to advancing NOAA’s operational missions.  NOAA’s Technology Tran ..read more

Show Notes Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Don Berchoff, CEO of TruWeather Solutions Description: Who pays attention to the weather when there is no pilot on board an aircraft? This is the situation for beyond visual line of site (BVLOS) unmanned aerial vehicles which fly without the world's best weather sensor, a pilot. Don Berchoff and the TruWeather team are delivering on a promise to reduce micro-weather uncertainty for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations, with a focus on "over-the-horizon" hard-to-detect weather hazards. TruWeather’s efforts seek to replace the loss of the ..read more

Show Notes Host: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: Paul Walsh, CEO of Meteomatics N.A. Description: “There’s an amazing amount of unclaimed value in businesses bringing in weather and climate data.” That’s from Paul Walsh, CEO of Meteomatics N.A. and our most recent guest on the Triple Point™.  In order to create repeatable business revenue with weather and climate data, Paul also shares his recipe for success that has helped him throughout his fruitful weather business career: Know the weather, Make it actionable with the right analytics, and (most importantly) Integrate it into exi ..read more

Show Notes Host: Ryan Harris Guest: TC Moore (Owner of Atlantic States Weather) and Dan Schreiber (CCM at J.S. Held) Description: Billions of dollars in insurance and personal injury litigation cases get settled every year in the U.S.  In some of these cases, the weather can become a significant factor in proving or disproving damage, negligence, or possibly even fault.  In such cases, companies, lawyers, the insurance industry, or courts seek the expert advice of an American Meteorological Society Certified Consulting Meteorologist.  CCMs TC Moore and Dan Schreiber come on the ..read more

Hosts: Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guest: N/A Description: “Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.” ~ E.F. Schumacher.  Mankind has a fascination with attempting to control nature to fit our way of life, whether well-intentioned or not.  It’s no different with the weather and climate.  And with climate warming continuing to accelerate and 2023 likely to be one of the warmest in recorded human history, the die is cast for the grandest of human experiments, even arguably beyond nuclear weapons ..read more

Show Notes Hosts:  Jeff Cunningham and Ryan Harris Guests: Dr. Amy McGovern, Professor at University of Oklahoma Director, NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography & Senior Technical Staff Member Dr. John Williams, Head of Weather AI Sciences at The Weather Company, an IBM Business Description: Is Machine Learning coming for your job?  Will AI replace weather forecasters?  Unlikely in the near-term postulates our guests this month, Dr. Amy McGovern, who runs the National Science Foundation’s AI for Environmental Sciences ..read more