Systems and methods to generate business recommendations for specific
business actions based on weather element forecasts and known
relationships between a business activity and weather elements are
provided. The system includes a confidence level filter, an opportunity
matrix filter, a weather decision point generator, a business rule
recommendation engine and a business rule knowledge database. Methods to
generate a business recommendation for a business activity are also
provided. The methods include receiving weather driven demand data,
assigning opportunity measures to each of the data points, identifying
weather decision points based on opportunity measures, and applying
business weather rules to the weather decision points to generate
business recommendations. In a further feature, a weather element
relationship and/or a weather element forecast confidence level is
assigned to each data point within the weather driven demand data. These
confidence levels are then factored in to determine weather decision
points.