The original premise of ClimaCell as I understood when hearing about a few years ago was to utilize cellular cells (hence ClimaCell) to acquire information about the levels of humidity in the air, thus providing a cellular cell level immediate forecast. I believe they have expanded that to satellite communications and more.

There is an enormous amount of latent weather data to be extracted from existing sources and they, I think, are doing a great job finding and using them.

I am also working on similar efforts, focused on using labelled photos of the sky with ML to extract weather data from outdoor photos, and using barometers in phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe...

I'm shocked there aren't more efforts in this space. I know IBM is using barometers in phones now, and I suppose Apple may try that post-Dark Sky acquisition, but I'm still surprised there aren't more!

PressureNET (now defunct) was the earliest crowdsourcing phone barometer platform that I remember hearing about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressureNET

Yeah, that one was me :) All Clear is my latest attempt. It's a hard nut to crack.

I would be totally okay with this if it means we can predict when thunderstorms will start in our mountain passes.

Nice! Did they modify the cell towers with humidity sensors? Please share any links if you can. This would make their data to be more high resolution.