As we begin another change of season,
the weather changes dramatically from day to day. Seems like many
of us check the weather to see what to wear, should we take an
umbrella, etc. The Weather Company owns the fourth-most used
mobile app in the U.S., and their cloud handles 26 billion
requests a day.
IBM just made a bid to buy the digital assets for a few billion
dollars and will feed the info into Watson for even more
analysis. IBM said, "Weather is probably the single largest swing
factor in business performance - it impacts 1/3 of the world's GDP
and in the US alone; weather is responsible for about half a
trillion dollars in impact." Next spring we might see a battle
between Punxsutawney Phil and Watson.