OFF!® Brand and The Weather Channel partner to launch new in-app mosquito forecast

The partnership aims to leverage weather data and insights to allow people to get their local OFF!Cast Mosquito Forecast™ as easily as their local weather forecast

ATLANTA and RACINE, Wis. - July 1, 2024 - As summer's higher heat and humidity nears, people prepare for an influx of mosquitoes. To help individuals and their families better protect themselves from mosquitoes, The Weather Company and its flagship consumer brand, The Weather Channel, has teamed up with OFF!®, America's #1 trusted Insect Repellent brand in 2024, to bring local mosquito forecasts to The Weather Channel app. Launched in the U.S. in 2022, Brazil in 2023, and Canada in 2024¹, OFF!Cast Mosquito Forecast™ predicts mosquito behavior and populations to help consumers better plan summer activities and optimize their outdoor time this summer.

Through The Weather Company's newly launched data and insights platform, The Weather Engine™, OFF!® brand is enhancing its OFF!Cast Mosquito Forecast™from SC Johnson's Center for Insect Science with weather data and analytics from The Weather Company, the world's most accurate weather forecaster², to include a mosquito index in The Weather Channel app, the world's most downloaded weather app³ .

How it works: Helping people become mosquito-ready
The collaboration focuses on combining OFF!® and The Weather Channel teams' respective expertise to help people live well and enjoy the outdoors.

Incorporating over 15 billion climate data points and real-world mosquito data from 5,000 locations, the OFF!Cast Mosquito Forecast combines entomology research on local mosquito species with detailed weather data inputs to predict mosquito populations and activity levels by ZIP code. Historic activity patterns, varying weather conditions, and weather and climate factors are accounted for when building these regional models.

Now leveraging The Weather Company's deep meteorological expertise, enhanced datasets include historical and forecast temperature, humidity and precipitation for predicting mosquito sources, as well as forecast conditions that drive day-of mosquito activity.

How to view your OFF!Cast Forecast

By integrating OFF!Cast Mosquito Forecast™into The Weather Channel app, millions more consumers can now get into a routine of checking their local mosquito and weather forecasts simultaneously across multiple platforms:

• For those who already depend on the OFF!Cast Mosquito Forecast™, it continues to be available on OFF.com, but now with improved weather data from The Weather Channel.
• The OFF!Cast tool will also be visible in The Weather Channel app's new experience on iOS. Check out the Daily tab and Outdoor Activity tabs for camping, hiking, golf and gardening for an at-a-glance risk level - low, medium, high, very high, severe- of mosquito activity based on local weather conditions for today and the days ahead.
• To know mosquito risk for the area, sign up for weekly forecasts on the OFF.com website or from within the OFF!Cast tool on The Weather Channel properties.
• Learn more about mosquitoes and how to avoid them with educational, integrated content across The Weather Channel app and OFF.com.
• When weather conditions are ripe for heightened mosquito activity, OFF! will share relevant, informative messaging on The Weather Channel digital properties and beyond.

"Mosquito activity is very dependent on weather patterns," said Tom Mascari, principal entomologist with SC Johnson's Center for Insect Science. "Checking the weather and local mosquito forecasts for the week can improve people's ability to prepare themselves to spend time outdoors."