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Enjoy the long weekend! If you are ocean-side, take a moment to appreciate the role of Earth's oceans in predicting the weather on seasonal-to-subseasonal time horizons. Oceans hold the bulk of our planet's heat and water. We recommend Dr Ray Schmitt's writing on the water cycle if you need a beachside read... 🤓 🏖 🎆 https://lnkd.in/e_ZmJCSR

Customer-focused is a Salient company value: "We care about our customers - how they succeed individually and as organizations, how they get the most value out of our product, how they experience Salient. We do everything we can to make working with us a positive experience." And the positive feedback always warms our hearts. 💙

A recent article in the Energy Law Journal probes the topic of utility climate resilience planning and regulation. The TLDR? Improved forecasting methods can be utilized by utilities for climate change resilience planning and state commissions can mandate this type of planning. Appreciate the deep dive by Janice Beecher, Harvey Reiter, and Jeffrey Watkiss. Shoutout to Salient's forward-thinking utility customers who are doing this now -- you are demonstrating the path ahead for this sector. #forecastfurther Dive deeper: Read the full article here https://lnkd.in/ezHvRiiX And read Salient's take on this back in January 2024 here https://lnkd.in/e783yaSi

Thank you again to team Salient for diving deeper into S2S weather forecasting for smallholder farmers in East Africa last week. Excited to put your learnings to work in our next steps together with TomorrowNow.org and in-region partners. #forecastfurther Tag Rekha Sharma, Janet Lee, Karl Critz, Brian Zimmerman

We are honored to be in this program, deepening our capacity to partner with the humanitarian sector. #forecastfurther Thank you for selecting Salient among the top software solutions for community climate adaptation: Australian Red Cross, Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC), QBE FOUNDATION INC, Leading Cities, and Telstra Foundation. Read more about the #humanitech challenge here: https://lnkd.in/gmyJT5iP

"Our understanding of weather is changing for two reasons: Ocean data and artificial intelligence." CEO Matt Stein's TED talk explained the relationship between AI, ocean data, and weather forecasting well in layman's terms. Video coming later this summer. Chief Scientist Dr. Sam Levang's presentation at the American Meteorological Society's 2024 meeting explains the relationship in a bit more technical detail if you are curious: https://lnkd.in/eC6vEJ99 📸 credits: TEDxPortsmouth

The Eddies celebrate Massachusetts-based startups with "ground-breaking" technology. We're delighted to be finalists. https://lnkd.in/eUhxrrEN Thank you Massachusetts Innovation Network for supporting the competition, and BostInno for the coverage. #forecastfurther

Last week Salient was named to the Top 100 QBE North America AcceliCity Resilience Challenge. "The Challenge discovers solutions to real issues in our communities," said Michael Lake, founder and CEO of Leading Cities. We are among the solutions that enable global communities to adapt to climate-related impacts and we're excited to dig in. #forecastfurther https://lnkd.in/ee52qA5m

🇰🇪 Live from Nairobi: We are deep into seasonal forecasting for agricultural decision-making in East Africa. Thank you, Brian Zimmerman, Janet Lee, Karl Critz and Rekha Sharma for representing Salient. And thank you to partners TomorrowNow.org and the Gates Foundation, among others, for supporting this work to increase farmer productivity. #forecastfuther

Many are forecasting an abnormally hot summer across most of the US but Salient’s seasonal forecast is more nuanced. The highest probabilities for above-normal heat are in the Great Plains and eastern Continental U.S. Details, maps, and a nice explanation of using temperature thresholds to focus on the probability of exceeding critical temperature anomalies by Janet Lee here: https://lnkd.in/enAtKbPR #forecastfurther