Weather forecasts, believe it or not, have come a long way. A five-day forecast today is as accurate as a three-day forecast four decades ago.
But the 10-day forecast? That’s still a coin flip — or an opportunity if you’re in the weather prediction business.
There are two ways to better predict the weather: Measure it more accurately, or describe how it works in more excruciating scientific detail.
Enter WindBorne, a startup in Palo Alto, California. When its CEO, John Dean, was driving a battered Subaru around the San Francisco Bay Area a few years…