Tomorrow.io Demonstrates High-Quality Data from Newly Launched Microwave Sounders, Setting the Stage for Significant Weather Forecasting Advancements

The commercially built satellites are advancing global atmospheric monitoring and establishing a critical milestone in weather forecasting.

BOSTON, October 3, 2024 – Tomorrow.io, the leading Resilience Platform™, today announced a major milestone with the successful demonstration of high-quality data from its first two microwave sounders. 

Following NASA’s TROPICS microwave sounders, this achievement solidifies the operational readiness of Tomorrow.io’s growing satellite constellation, which now includes four satellites: 2 precipitation radars and 2 microwave sounders, with plans to continue deploying multiple additional satellites over the next 2 years. With this, Tomorrow.io has paved the way for achieving sub-hourly revisit rates and further improving global weather forecasting and nowcasting capabilities.

“NASA’s TROPICS satellites have been a game-changer, particularly for tropical regions. However, with Tomorrow.io’s constellation, we’re introducing advancements in data refresh rates, low latency, and global coverage,” said Rei Goffer, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Tomorrow.io. “We’ve demonstrated that our satellites are producing exceptionally high-quality data, and have set the stage for the future of weather forecasting.”

Tomorrow.io’s data quality is comparable to that of multi-hundred-million-dollar government satellite instruments, such as the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) on NOAA’s polar-orbiting satellites, and the Microwave Humidity Sounder on EUMETSAT’s METOP series of satellites, at a fraction of the cost. By integrating this high-quality, near real-time data, Tomorrow.io’s platform is uniquely positioned to train the most accurate AI and machine learning models, and produce predictive insights via its resilience platform. With data acting as the critical component to forecast models, Tomorrow.io’s proprietary datasets are superior in powering the most actionable forecast and predictive insights globally.

Tomorrow.io’s resilience platform supports businesses and governments worldwide, including Northern Europe, Asia, and Africa, where traditional tropical-focused satellites provide limited coverage. Tomorrow.io’s sounders will offer additional benefits for these areas which are in need of next-generation weather technology, and face increasingly unpredictable and severe weather events.

With plans to deploy more satellites through 2024 and 2025, Tomorrow.io is on track to further improve operational efficiency, enabling faster disaster preparedness, proactive early warning systems, and unprecedented weather forecasting accuracy. The company’s next-generation technology has already demonstrated global accuracy improvements of 30%-60%, with more enhancements on the horizon.