Career spotlight on Matt Gaffner, a forensic meteorologist at Weather Decisions Technologies in Norman.

As cold weather and snow grips much of the country, holiday and winter travel travelers with iPads will have a brand new weather application, iMap for iPad, to help plan trips and outings with friends and family. Load this up before you travel:

DT and Realtree have launched iMap as an iPhone (News - Alert) application. It’s the most advanced mobile weather technology available and it is fully customizable by the user.

Weather Decision Technologies has grown to have 70 employees, benefiting from startup funds from Oklahoma investors.

NORMAN — With high prospects for hurricanes in the oil-ridden Gulf of Mexico this year, Norman-based Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., and America’s Emergency Network are again partnering to provide an emergency information tool to local newspaper, radio and television websites called the iMapHurricane! video widget.

NORMAN – The weather – a favorite topic of conversation, an entertainment option or a factor in scheduling a day – continues to be a growing business opportunity for a local company.

NORMAN — Ten years after starting off in a business incubator behind a Taco Bueno on Lindsey Street, Norman-based Weather Decision Technologies is still going strong.

Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center team are heading out on a storm chase and you can watch their every move.

The reliable detection, prediction, and forecasting data that Weather Decision Technologies’ Aviation Weather Decision Support System is providing has become critical to supporting and maintaining the strong traffic growth at Dubai International Airport and the new Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC).

Three Oklahoma companies will add just over 300 new jobs in the next 10 years after signing on with the state’s Quality Jobs program.