Weather & Climate blog

Shipping vessel in a rough sea using maritime weather data

A guide to maritime weather data for shipping

February 7, 2023

Spire provides global businesses with maritime weather data APIs to guide their ships, mitigate risks, enhance efficiencies, and streamline decisions.

Local weather forecast data with rain clouds on horizon over field of crops

The value of a hyper-local weather forecast in optimizing global supply chains

February 1, 2023

What are the global risks facing the world in 2023 and how can a location-specific local weather forecast help?

Forest wildfire in California. Smoke from a fire in the blue sky

The Analytical Moose: Harnessing weather data to enhance wildfire awareness

January 30, 2023

“We live in a period where wildfires go from 10,000 acres to 1 million acres without warning. The speed at which these fires are spreading nowadays just makes it all the more difficult to evacuate people and combat it. I have lived through these fires and that’s why it’s important to me that I am able to build something that can notify residents in time.”

Supply chain logistics and transportation of container cargo ship in the ocean

Global trends that will impact supply chains in 2023

January 11, 2023

If 2020 is the year that broke the global supply chain, 2022 wasn’t the year where fixes were made. What emerging supply chain trends await 2023? Will there be greater resilience and predictability?

A lookback at the extreme weather events of 2022

January 10, 2023

A record-breaking year with climate change wreaking havoc across the globe with an increasing number of heatwaves, droughts, storms and other harsh weather events.

Driving next-generation AI-powered voyage optimization with weather data

December 22, 2022

It’s a regular gray smoggy day in 2050 in Los Angeles as the city wakes up and sets out to work with its residents wearing air filtration masks.

Aerial view of clouds over coastal land and sea in gulf of Thailand, landscape or cloudscape top view from airplane

Leveraging global space-powered weather data to scale voluntary carbon markets

November 25, 2022

As climate change causes an increase in the intensity and frequency of storms, wildfires, droughts and other extreme weather events, the permanence of nature-based mitigation projects is increasingly threatened.

Climate change - dead trees and cracked land at dry river during drought

COP 27: Turning the tide on climate change drives business value

November 7, 2022

Here’s a question: is what’s good for the planet also good business?

Aerial view of shipping post with transportation and technology concept illustration

Customer Spotlight - Gale Force: Leveraging advanced technologies to help vessels optimally navigate the high seas

September 22, 2022

How has Gale Force, a weather routing business, helped the maritime industry save 500,000 metric tons of C02 annually?

What role did climate change play in Pakistan’s devastating floods?

September 12, 2022

This is one of the greatest natural disasters faced by this Third World nation that already faces a myriad of challenges such as poverty, political instability and security.

Facilitating marine debris detection with advanced ocean forecasts

September 8, 2022

Could there be more plastic in the sea than fish by the year 2050?

Customer Spotlight - Sinay: Harnessing the power of data to build sustainable maritime operations

April 29, 2022

As you may know, at Spire, we’re trying to do our bit to help solve real-world challenges from space.

Earth Day 2022 - Observed from Space

April 22, 2022

It’s Time to Invest in our Pale Blue Dot

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