Disney Weather Check is an integrated weather forecasting and mobile system that provides the most accurate weather for Disney Parks and Resorts.
The accuracy of the system is driven by on-site sensors and 24-hour meteorological services provided by Earth Networks and real-time interactive maps and alerts available through the WeatherBug app. Disney Weather Check enables users to receive alerts and weather maps specific to their location and the procedures to follow related to inclement weather.
WeatherBug
Disney Parks and Resorts and WeatherBug are working together to create an innovative safety weather solution for use by anyone around the world. The WeatherBug solution is an innovative product that combines Disney’s technical expertise with WeatherBug’s technology platform to provide companies with top-of-the-line tools for weather tracking including alerts, real-time interactive maps and a rules engine that provides guidelines that comply with unique safety policies and procedures related to inclement weather.
Earth Networks
Earth Networks, the global leader in weather and lightning monitoring and alerting, is a longtime provider of weather safety solutions to Disney Parks and Resorts. The Disney Weather Check technology collaboration offers Earth Networks customers an operational playbook for dealing with severe weather situations that can interrupt business continuity, packaged as specific functionality within its products such as Sferic Maps, a real-time visualization and alerting platform and Sferic Siren, an outdoor mass notification system. Earth Networks helps parks, schools, sports teams, state and local governments and enterprises manage weather threats with automated alerts, forecasting, and detection of dangerous conditions like lightning, high wind, and heat.
Disney Heat Check is a real-time microclimate condition and logic-driven index based on Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, a calculation of heat stress when exposed to direct sunlight using additional weather elements.
Through co-development of advanced technology with Disney SyncLink licensees and the use of macro & microclimate weather stations, we’ve established new capabilities that provide heat stress conditions monitoring, realtime alerting, heat stress precautions, and catered forecasts.
HeatGuardian
The most effective way to start creating your heat illness prevention plan is with proactive environment monitoring. HeatGuardian™ HeatShield compatible with Disney Weather Check is an integrated weather observing, forecasting, alerting solution that provides the most current heat stress data using calculations based on clinically gathered gold standard data over the last 30 years.
TempestOne
The weather technology company provides cutting-edge weather monitoring, proprietary Nearcast™ Technology via their flagship Tempest Weather System, WeatherFlowOne SaaS tools, and a suite of related apps and services to further strengthen operational planning at Disney properties and similar locations around the world.
HeatAlert
The HeatAlert app by Tempest, compatible with Disney Heat Check, is the ultimate solution for staying informed and protected during extreme heat events. HeatAlert features include current heat stress index, wet bulb globe temperature estimation, hourly and daily heat stress forecasting, and more to help maintain high safety standards across all industries.