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# Meteorologist (Contract) at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5270411007

## Job description

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job brief:

As a Meteorologist on The Weather Company’s UK desk, you are the weather expert for North America while the U.S. sleeps. You analyze the forecast, explain what is happening and why, and turn it into clear, accurate coverage for millions of users on Weather.com and The Weather Channel app. You work alongside the UK Assignment Editor and hand off cleanly to the U.S. team, so the morning audience wakes up to a forecast and story they can trust.

The impact you'll make:

Own the science overnight

- Monitor and analyze North American weather overnight and early morning: model guidance, observations, radar, and satellite.
- Write and review forecast-driven stories, with the right level of confidence and detail for a general audience, making use of The Weather Company’s tools and reporting systems as well as other trusted models.
- Provide expert guidance on severe weather, tropical systems, winter storms, air quality, flooding and other high-impact events as they develop.
- Hold the line on scientific accuracy under time pressure and with limited backup.

Support breaking coverage

- Work with the UK Assignment Editor to prioritize what leads, what waits, and what needs a closer look.
- Flag developing high-impact weather early and know when it is worth waking someone up.
- Contribute to video and social content, including identifying network clips for posting and writing original scripts for handoff to the U.S. team.

Coordinate across teams

- Hand off in-progress forecasts and threats to the U.S. meteorology team each morning, and pick up open threads at night.
- Keep a clear log of what was changed, flagged and escalated.
- Work with editorial, video and product so nothing falls through the time-zone gap.

What you've accomplished:

- Degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, or a related field.
- 3+ years experience as an operational or broadcast meteorologist, with strong forecasting skills.
- Working knowledge of North American weather patterns, including severe weather, tropical systems, wildfires and winter weather.
- Ability to explain complex weather clearly and quickly to a general audience.
- Self-directed and calm under pressure. You are comfortable making calls with limited backup.
- Eligible to work in the UK and able to reliably cover the U.S. overnight / early-morning window.

## Nice to have

- Professional certification or membership (for example, RMetS, AMS, or NWA).
- On-camera or video experience.
- Experience with a 24/7 or breaking-news operation.

## About The Weather Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Weather Company is a global leader in weather data, forecasting, and insights, providing scalable solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments through its portfolio of trusted brands and a robust API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of IBM)
- **Headquarters**: Brookhaven, Georgia, United States (also major hubs in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 1982 (as The Weather Channel)
- **Founders**: John Coleman (co-founder of The Weather Channel)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather Data & Forecasting, Technology, Media, Advertising, Aviation
- **Target customers**: B2B (Aviation, Media, Advertising, Government/Defense) and B2C (Consumers via The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Storm Radar)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To instill confidence, drive decisions, and propel the world by putting science and technology to work. The company aims to "drive better, faster decisions for the millions of consumers, clients, and partners who rely on us every day."

## Products & Services
- **[The Weather Channel App & Website]**: The flagship consumer brand and the most downloaded weather app, available on iOS and Android across 178 countries and 83 languages. Provides hyper-local forecasts, severe weather alerts, and lifestyle content.
- **[Weather Underground]**: A community-driven weather platform that provides hyper-local data and forecasts from a network of personal weather stations.
- **[Storm Radar]**: A dedicated severe weather tracking app providing real-time, interactive radar and storm path predictions.
- **[Weather Data API]**: A robust, enterprise-grade API platform that allows businesses to integrate weather data into their applications, business processes, or custom models. Guarantees 99.9% uptime SLA.
- **[Aviation Weather Solutions (Pilotbrief)]**: Provides preflight and in-flight weather briefings, safety tools, and performance optimization data for the aviation industry. Originally pioneered dial-up aviation weather briefings.
- **[Media Solutions]**: Provides enterprise-class production tools, visualizations, and advanced weather data to television stations and broadcasters to create personalized content and cross-platform experiences.
- **[Advertising Solutions]**: A privacy-forward, contextual advertising platform that leverages weather as a signal to deliver predictive insights and more relevant, precise campaigns for marketers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held subsidiary of IBM). Estimated annual revenue of **$133.4M**.
- **Key Metric**: **~2.2 billion** weather forecasts produced each day for **2.2 billion** locations. The Weather Channel app has **3x more cumulative downloads** than its closest competitor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IBM (parent company). Key partners include hundreds of global broadcasters and thousands of enterprise customers across aviation, media, and government.
- **Growth Signals**: Named the **#1 most trusted brand in the U.S.** (Morning Consult, 2025) and the **world's most accurate forecaster** (ForecastWatch, 2021-2024). The company is investing heavily in AI to power predictive insights for advertising and consumer products. Employs 523 people (-1.6% YoY).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched Accuracy & Trust**: Consistently ranked as the world's most accurate forecaster and a top 10 most trusted brand, creating a massive competitive moat in both consumer and enterprise markets.
- **Massive Data & Scale**: Processes data from billions of locations daily, with 89% of users opting in to share location data. This creates a unique, privacy-forward data asset for AI and advertising.
- **Patent Portfolio**: Holds dozens of patents for weather forecasting, data processing, and visualization technologies.
- **Deep Industry Integration**: Long-standing, mission-critical relationships in aviation (70% of air traffic delays are weather-related), media (the #1 reason people watch local news is weather), and government.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Innovation**: Leveraging AI to enhance forecast accuracy, deliver predictive advertising insights, and improve consumer experiences.
- **Expanding Enterprise Solutions**: Growing the B2B side of the business, particularly in Aviation, Media, and Advertising, by offering more integrated, data-rich solutions.
- **Consumer Engagement**: Maintaining and growing the massive consumer user base (50M+ daily users) through continuous app innovation and personalization.
- **Climate Adaptation**: Positioning the company as a critical partner for businesses and governments navigating an increasingly volatile climate.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are driven by a purpose to help people and businesses make better decisions in the face of increasingly volatile weather. The culture is described as "curious, collaborative, and purpose-driven."
- **Strong Stability & Longevity**: Nearly half of employees have spent more than a decade at the company, indicating high retention and a stable work environment. Backed by IBM.
- **Flexibility & Perks**: Offers **partial remote work options** and a **Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy** with no limit on paid days off. Comprehensive benefits include $0 premium employee medical coverage, strong 401k match (no vesting), tuition reimbursement, and progressive family planning benefits (fertility treatments, adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, paid parental leave).
- **Cross-Functional Opportunities**: Roles span product design, technology, weather science, data & analytics, sales, marketing, and operations. Notable open roles include Senior Data Engineer, Staff Software Engineer (AI/Weather Science), and Cybersecurity Analyst.
- **Locations**: Major offices in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY.

## Sources
1. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/careers/)
2. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/)
3. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/about-us/)
4. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/leadership/)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weather-company)

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