AccuWeather Lightning Network Data Now Available on Databricks Marketplace
AccuWeather announces the availability of its highly sophisticated lightning data on premier data marketplace, Databricks Marketplace. This strategic initiative underscores AccuWeather’s commitment to saving lives and protecting property by providing unparalleled weather insights to businesses, governments, and the public.
The AccuWeather Lightning Network is among the few global lightning networks delivering high-quality and accurate lightning data. Leveraging expert analysis, advanced algorithms, and cutting-edge machine learning models, the Network offers one-of-a-kind lightning detection capabilities. This crucial data helps users make timely and informed weather-impacted decisions, enhancing safety and protecting assets.
The addition of AccuWeather Lightning Network Data enhances AccuWeather’s presence on the Databricks Marketplace, where the AccuWeather Data Suite is already offered. The Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data, analytics and AI, powered by Delta Sharing. Delta Sharing is Databricks’ open source approach that enables customers to share live data across platforms, clouds and regions with strong security and governance.
“The AccuWeather Lightning Network provides a proprietary and differentiated data set that we own and control,” said Chris Patti, AccuWeather’s Chief Data and Science Officer. “That means we bring the same rigor, attention to detail, and innovation to managing the network, analyzing and preparing the data, and developing innovative products and services that has made AccuWeather the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world. We are excited to offer this dataset on Databricks Marketplace, helping customers make informed weather-impacted decisions.”
In the United States, lightning is a significant weather hazard striking the ground over 200 million times (over 2 billion times globally) last year. On average, lightning causes 20-30 fatalities and over 200 injuries annually in the U.S. Globally, the toll is even larger, with some estimates of more than 10,000 lives lost each year due to lightning. AccuWeather said its recent strategic acquisition of the lightning network and planned enhancements will enable the company to offer real-time lightning detection services that further advance safety and preparedness.
The AccuWeather Lightning Network is instrumental in enhancing safety and operational efficiency across various sectors. Users can now access AccuWeather’s real-time and historical cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning data through various flexible and convenient delivery methods. These include API, CSV, JSON formats, real-time delivery via websocket, alerting through push notifications and email, and GIS/mapping services. The data is now readily available on leading data marketplace Databricks, as well as in bulk historical formats.
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