FORT COLLINS - Intersphere Inc., a Fort Collins technology company that uses artificial intelligence to predict weather patterns, has been acquired by Louisville, Kentucky-based weather data-analytics firm Climavision.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy investors, producers and traders now have access to critical weather and climate insights earlier than ever before, thanks to the combined expertise of two leaders in AI-powered weather prediction. Louisville, KY-based Climavision, a leader in advanced weather modeling and forecasting technology, has acquired Intersphere, a fast-growing innovator specializing in subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) forecasting – predicting weather up to a year in advance. Intersphere’s unique technology and expertise will build on Climavision's own AI-powered weather prediction and decades of experience in numerical weather prediction. The result is a market-ready solution that energy customers can use to immediately improve their productivity, profitability, and resilience. Intersphere’s AI (Artificial Intelligence) process generates specific probability scenarios for virtually any aspect of the energy industry down to units as small as an individual wind farm. By combining that data with Climavision’s existing suite of high-resolution and global weather models, energy clients will have reliable, specific probabilities across a range of scenarios – with enough lead time to make both strategic and tactical decisions

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