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<div>While Winter Storm Pax approaches the Washington area, The Weather Channel has been engaged in a fierce battle with DirectTV following a contract dispute that's left 20 million Americans -- one-fifth of TWC's potential audience, according to Fortune -- without access to the leading weather news provider.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>the weather channel</div><div></div><div>Download Zip: https://t.co/X826xKz7GC </div><div></div><div></div><div>After dropping TWC in early January, DirectTV replaced it with a Colorado-based channel called WeatherNation, which lacks the production quality and professionalism of TWC, to say the least. It also appears to provide unbalanced coverage, geographically speaking, which has not gone unnoticed by D.C. lawmakers. Over the weekend, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa took to Twitter to voice his frustration:</div><div></div><div></div><div>GRAF will use IBM Power9-based supercomputers to provide predictions that cover areas of 3-kilometer resolution. That is a significantly higher resolution than is common in weather forecasting today. Moreover, the forecast data will update hourly across the globe.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Since the days of the first ENIAC machine, weather data and computation have been closely interlinked. IBM's 2015 acquisition of The Weather Company came at an early stage in the rapid expansion of the big data industry that is still going on.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Consumers, in effect, sell their "location" in exchange for an app that provides some convenience, such as advice on the location of the nearest burrito store, the availability of a ride-share service, or the weather forecast, he said.</div><div></div><div></div><div>"While the long-term effects of climate change are broadly agreed upon - an increase in extreme weather and changes to once-consistent weather patterns - the short-term effects can be difficult to pinpoint. 'Was this particular storm caused or exacerbated by climate change?' is often unknowable."</div><div></div><div></div><div>"All of the interview subjects of Climate 25 are speaking based on the fact that climate change is happening. They come from business and military leaders, from people who have seen firsthand the power of severe weather, and even from some perhaps-unexpected voices in American politics. These videos are also the culmination of a year-long project looking at climate change as a real-world problem that will require creative solutions from all points on the political spectrum."</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>