# Climavision Partners With Western Weather Group to Bring Utilities' Own Ground Stations Into Its Forecast Models

- Published: 2026-11-12
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*Climavision & Western Weather Group give utility customers the radar, ground sensors and models a weather tech stack needs to read conditions in their footprint*

LOUISVILLE, KY, UNITED STATES, November 12, 2026 /[EINPresswire.com](https://www.einpresswire.com/)/ -- [Climavision](https://climavision.com/) and [Western Weather Group](https://www.westernweathergroup.com/) (WWG) have formed a strategic partnership to feed readings from their mutual utility customers’ own WWG ground stations into Climavision’s forecast models. WWG has built and deployed more than 8,000 industrial-grade weather stations across the service territories of investor-owned, cooperative and municipal utilities nationwide. Utilities that work with both companies now have all three layers of a weather tech stack at once: Climavision’s proprietary low-level observations, including its growing 16-state private radar network; ground-level readings from their own stations; and the models that take in both. The result is hyper-local visibility into each utility’s footprint in time to respond to shifts in energy demand and production and to emergency needs.

WWG designs, sites, installs and maintains weather stations for electric and natural gas utilities, which buy and own the equipment and mount it on poles, substations and even the most remote ridgelines of the systems they operate. On their own, those stations record and retain what the weather is doing at an exact moment in time. For utilities that work with both companies, the same readings now feed Climavision’s forecast model alongside its low-level radar observations, so they also help determine what the weather will do next across each utility’s entire service territory. The two companies have already proven this joint model in the field with CenterPoint Energy in Texas.

The federal network covers the whole country. A utility's own network covers the lines and pipelines it runs.

While a robust backbone network, the federal weather network was not built to see weather at the granularity a utility needs. Two government systems cover the whole country: over 160 NEXRAD radars scan the atmosphere, and roughly 950 surface weather stations measure conditions on the ground. This covers a large amount of the U.S., but it leaves major gaps between systems. NOAA's own 2019 report to Congress found that beyond about 100 miles from a federal radar, the lowest beam cannot see below 6,000 feet. Power lines are 40 feet up, and pipelines sit lower still.

To supplement the public network, Climavision prioritizes low-level observations and is deploying a growing private radar network that already spans 16 states, including weather-vulnerable Florida, Minnesota and Texas. Those radars fill in the blind spots that leave grid operators unable to see large swaths of on-the-ground conditions. At the same time, Western Weather Group has built and maintained more than 8,000 utility-owned ground stations across the service areas of over 30 utilities, including stations those utilities already ran.

Utilities are building their own weather tech stacks to fill in visibility gaps.

For a utility that works with both companies, the two networks now produce a continuous picture from the ground to the sky. Climavision's radars track the low-altitude layer NEXRAD cannot reach, while the utility's own WWG stations measure conditions at the surface itself. Both feed Climavision's High Resolution forecasting system, which runs on a two-kilometer national grid hourly out to seven days, giving the utility live readings from across its own territory and a forecast built out of them. No public or commercial forecast has been structured that way before.

The forecast gets sharper. So does what a utility can do with it.

This is what changes for utilities that bring their stations into Climavision's forecasting:

• Weather risk informs capital deployment. Unlike standard weather platform subscriptions, weather data drawn from a utility's own infrastructure can maximize its capital investments, showing which parts of the system face the most severe conditions.

• Coverage improves without building anything new. Instruments already mounted on utility assets become part of the weather tech stack's observation layer, in terrain radar struggles to reach.

• Crews stage with better information. The utility's own readings make the three-to-five-day forecast more accurate, which is the window when crews get staged and mutual assistance is requested.

• The forecast keeps updating mid-event. Live readings from those same stations let an operations center redirect resources once weather is on top of the system.

• The record behind a shutoff decision is calibrated. Western Weather Group calibrates the stations it maintains every year, so the wind and humidity readings behind a de-energization decision are traceable, defensible data that hold up when a regulator reviews the decision months later.

"Utilities are building weather tech stacks because a regional forecast cannot tell them what to do on their own system," said Chris Goode, CEO and co-founder of Climavision. "When radar overhead, a variety of low-level observations, and a utility's own sensors on the ground feed the same model, crews get staged earlier and shutoff calls rest on measured conditions rather than a regional estimate. As a result, less of the storm gets spent reacting. That is what utilities are building toward."

CenterPoint Energy was among the first utilities to run this integration in the field, starting in Houston in 2025 with 150 of its own stations, designed and deployed by Western Weather Group, feeding Climavision's model alongside Climavision's radar data. The program has run through multiple storm events since, including one in October 2025 in which the model flagged the risk an entire week out. Following that warning, the utility began monitoring five days ahead, activated its emergency operations center two days after that and restored 95% of affected customers after the second wave of weather moved through.

"The stations we build for utilities were designed to answer one question: what is happening at this pole, right now, to a standard that holds up when somebody asks about it a year later," said Steve Miller, Chief Strategy Officer at Western Weather Group. "When a customer brings those readings into Climavision's forecast, that same standard carries forward in time. The utility ends up with a prediction that has its own instruments behind it."

Industrial grade weather station integration is a pivotal piece of a stack utilities have been assembling around their own systems. Climavision opened the same radar network and forecasting platform to AI data center operators and the utilities serving them earlier this fall, as load growth moved forecast accuracy out of the operations room and into the planning cycle. For mutual customers, their own stations now sharpen the forecasts they use in both places.

About Climavision

Climavision brings together the power of a proprietary, high resolution supplemental weather radar network with its cutting-edge forecasting technology suite to close significant weather observation gaps and drastically improve forecast speed and accuracy. Climavision’s revolutionary approach to climate technology is poised to help reduce the economic risks of volatile weather on companies, governments, and communities alike. Climavision is backed by The Rise Fund, the world’s largest global impact platform committed to achieving measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns. The company is headquartered in Louisville, KY, with research and development operations in Raleigh, NC. To learn more, visit [www.Climavision.com](http://www.Climavision.com).

About Western Weather Group

Western Weather Group (WWG), headquartered in Chico, California, designs, installs, calibrates, and supports utility-grade weather station networks that deliver reliable, asset-level observations and decision-ready intelligence. WWG serves electric utilities, agriculture, emergency management, and other sectors where weather directly affects operations and safety, with particular focus on wildfire, severe weather, and related operational risk.

Kieran Powell  
Climavision

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