Patent ID: 8494774

Claim:
A computer system for predicting weather-related threats, comprising: a computer system having a memory and one or more processors; one or more processor executable programs stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors, where the one or more programs include, instructions for data ingesting and combining at a computer larger scale numerical weather forecast data with high spatial and high temporal resolution data from a local mesonet thereby creating real time a forecast model having higher spatial and temporal correlation factors between observed and predicted weather conditions; quality control processing the data from the local mesonet by determining if data is within predetermined criteria including one or more of, sensor performance, expected data content, expected data range, temporal data continuity, spatial data consistency and data adjustments for infrastructure; and instructions for deriving meteorological fields using current and predicted meteorological fields including one or more of divergence, vorticity, moisture advection, wind velocity shear, wind velocity deformation, and gradient wind strength, thereby maximizing temporal and spatial resolution.