Can bad weather be blamed for bad news?

Winter weather is mostly a drag on the economy, but a few businesses love it

A business opportunity for firms that make de-icer with everything from the remnants of rum to beet juice.

Retail numbers out today don’t look great, sales fell by 0.4 percent in January— when you take into account “seasonal adjustment”.

Leveraging massive amounts of computing power to predict weather and explore the galaxy.

How the company translates tidal waves of real time data to make renewable energy plants more efficient by predicting the weather.

A heat wave covering the Midwest and Northeast is expected to peak today — and with it, demand for electricity to power air conditioning. People may be asked to conserve, but power grids expect they'll meet demand.

Tobacco is a drought resistant plant. But this year, the weather has been anything but dry in major tobacco growing states like Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia.

What’s the temperature tolerance to fly a plane? At what degree point does the power grid start shutting down?

We are getting better at predicting the weather. Still, if prediction is half the battle, presentation is the other half.