Weather blog

Member of ground crew parks passenger airliner on airport apron in blizzard

How winter storms disrupt air cargo operations

March 3, 2023

Ever since the world’s very first airport (College Park Airport in the USA) unveiled its runaway back in 1909, operational managers understood the critical role that weather played in its functional performance.

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?

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COP 27: 4 ways AIS and weather data can be used to reduce maritime carbon emissions

October 31, 2022

More decisive actions and commitments are expected at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (COP27): 2022 is the ‘Super Year of the Ocean’ and the UN-Ocean Conference reached a collective agreement earlier this year among governments to implement “science-based, innovative” solutions to curb ocean warming.