WHEN YOU GET WEATHER INFORMATION, YOU MAY NOT THINK much about where it originates. Sure, there's the government's Leidos Flight Service-provided briefing products via 1-800-WXBRIEF, 1800wxbrief.com, and flight service frequencies, plus the weather services provided by Garmin Pilot, FltPlan com, and ForeFlight. But there's a whole world of weather services out there, and weather is a big business.The corporate giant IBM has bought into the weather business. In 2016, IBM bought The Weather Company (TWC, not to be confused with The Weather Channel)-aptly named because of its wide range of weather-related business units. One of them, WSI Corporation, provides weather forecasts and other products out of its eight forecast offices around the world. The main office is in Andover, Massachusetts, where 14 forecasters work. Others are in Atlanta; Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo; and Birmingham, England.
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