I suggested that this seemed almost like they were doing what the National Weather Service (which provides tons of observational data and forecasts for free as a public service) and other agencies would do if they could.
Green demurred, saying they work closely with those agencies and that they are indeed the keepers of a trove of important data — it just isn’t necessarily the kind of fast, portable data that a highly responsive consumer-facing company needs. He said they see this as a continuation of the international collaboration on weather data.