Our vision: To “take the worry out of travel” for all RVer’s, whenever and wherever they may travel across North America.
Our mission: Provide you the RVer with intuitive, accessible, accurate and affordable weather decision aids and the knowledge to make better travel decisions, faster.
Welcome to our little corner of the internet where we have no place for hype, drama, or click-bait. We apply technology, creativity, and innovation, leavened with hard work, perseverance, and persistence, to deliver tools that enable you to make great weather decisions when traveling. We are democratizing products that, until now, were accessible only by governments and large corporations.
Thousands of apps give you a weather forecast. Dozens of apps will even tell you what the weather will be like between Points ‘A’ and ‘B’. No one else gives you the weather IMPACTS on your upcoming trip, then provides you with routing options to manage that risk. That knowledge will reduce your travel stress and increase your confidence. You will enjoy greater peace of mind, and have a better experience on your RV journey.
Our Values
Very simply, we treat our customers, our partners and affiliates, our employees, interns and contractors, anyone who touches our company, that is, everyone, the way we like to be treated. Like an adult. With respect. We assume good faith, fairness, and honesty in everyone we encounter. Reciprocity is a powerful force.
We believe in being technically good at our work. We hire for competence AND a great ability to work with others, then give our workers the autonomy they deserve. We hire those who share our values and our vision. Our decades of service in the US Navy taught us the value of teamwork and being part of a mission bigger than yourself. We value the “4 P’s”: Planning, Preparation, Practice and Persistence. Performance counts. We value and appreciate the differing backgrounds, life styles, experiences, and perspectives, of everyone we encounter. We strive to learn from our customers and get better every day.
Our History
It was Springtime in 2019. We were brand-newbie RV’ers, heading out on Memorial Day Weekend to our first-ever rally in western Ohio. On Sunday night, we stop for the night, about 100 miles from the rally site. That evening, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes started to pop up over western Ohio, some very close to the rally site. It became clear, even from a distance, that the rally site was devolving into chaos and confusion. It’s a Sunday night on a 3-day weekend. Some people got a warning on their phone, others didn’t, some people thought they heard a tornado siren, others didn’t. Some people tried to seek safe shelter, only to encounter closed gates and locked doors. Fortunately, no tornadoes when through the rally field (although some touched down within 10 miles), but it was an eye-opening lesson on how vulnerable RVers are to extreme weather in general and severe weather in particular.
Later on that year, we set off on a 10,000 mile, 6-month round-the-country Airstream deployment. There’s nothing like doing to learn and we learned a LOT! Of relevance here though, we got a first-hand education on how weather impacts towing an RV through just about every conceivable type of weather.
By early 2020 I was providing a daily weather forecast focusing on the types of weather that matter most to RVers. In 2021, I started to get requests from Facebook friends and fellow RVers to help them with their winter travels, as they were using the RV as a mobile ski lodge! The experiment worked and word got around. RV Weather was growing into ‘big hobby’ status, with its own website. By 2022 I was providing weather avoidance trip routing services to over 200 RVers annually. The hobby was rapidly becoming a full-time retirement job! It was also becoming apparent that the rate of growth would soon exceed my limited capacity.
In the summer of 2022, I was catching up with my long-time shipmate and CEO of Metron, Van Gurley. He asked the question, “What would RV Weather look like as a business?” Because if it was a business, Metron had exactly the right type of talent to automate the routing system. By leveraging the knowledge Metron had gained on previous Department of Defense and NASA contracts, cloud computing technology, really smart Metron guys and gals, and my recent experience routing RVers, we realized we could bring this service not just to a couple of hundred people – but to all RVers across the country.
Throughout 2023, we did our due diligence, got our “I’s” dotted and “t’s” crossed (not in the naval sense!), and in September RV Weather Enterprises was formed as a joint partnership between the old RV Weather LLC and Metron Inc. RV Weather became an actual business. Shortly thereafter we released our first new product, WILMA, or Weather Impacts Likely to Make an Appearance. Using dozens of weather models, we take the impacts of seven different type of weather and determine their cumulative impact on RV travels.
2024 promises to be another big year for us. Building on WILMA, we will deliver an app that will give you recommendations (which route to take, leave early, on time, or delay, etc.) to avoid weather impacts at the level you select. Use it to plan your trip and once you’re on the road, use the Router to stay on track and avoid any ‘pop-up’ weather issues. We are very excited to roll this product out!
What We Offer
- WILMA (Weather Impacts Likely to Make an Appearance): An animated map of all weather impacts affecting RV travel across the U.S., from the current time out to eight days. Updated hourly.
- RV Trip Routing (SureRoute) and consulting services, as capacity allows
- Daily short-term weather updates highlighting RV-relevant weather hazards
- A variety of weather graphics and information, ranging from real-time warnings and radar, to outlooks several weeks into the future.
- Periodic longer-range weather outlooks for advanced planning
- Weather safety tips
- General weather information, trivia and tidbits
Our Team
Dave Titley
Co-Founder and Managing Director, RV Weather Enterprises.
My Mom always said I hatched interested in the weather. All I know is working in weather was all I really wanted to do, and I have been exceptionally fortunate in making that my career.
I joined the Navy’s ROTC program as a way to pay for college. Much to my surprise, a four year obligation turned into a 32-year career, and I retired as a Rear Admiral and the Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy. In layman’s terms you could say I was the ‘head weather guy’ for the U.S. Navy. I have nearly 50 years of weather forecasting experience, and have forecast for almost every corner of the globe, mostly trying to keep ships and typhoons, or other bad weather, apart from each other. + Read more… After the Navy I served briefly as NOAA’s Chief Operating Officer. Shortly thereafter, my alma mater, Penn State, made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, and I became a Professor of Practice in Meteorology for six years. In 2018 we bought our first travel trailer, a used Airstream, and the following year we set off on a five-month, 10,000 mile round-the-country odyssey. As someone who had never RV’ed, never towed anything, and hadn’t gone camping in over 30 years, it was, as they say, “a learning experience”. In the course of that trip I also learned a lot about the practical aspects of weather impacting RV travel. RV Weather as a concept was born in those early days, while providing support to an Airstream rally threatened by severe weather in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Some Airstream friends started to ask me about weather for their upcoming trips — and SureRoute came into being. We’ve come a long ways in a short time. Now in a strong partnership with my long-time shipmate, friend, and Metron Inc. CEO, Van Gurley, we have transformed RV Weather from a hobby to a business, and rolled out WILMA, our integrated weather impacts on travel product. This Spring, we will launch our automated ‘SureRoute’ system, that will provide recommendations to keep RVers and hurricanes, or other bad weather, apart from each other (sound familiar?). In addition to developing RV Weather, since 2020 my wife and I have volunteered for Grand Teton National Park. The past several years, we have worked on the Wildlife Brigade, in which three paid National Park Service Rangers and about 30 Volunteers. We promote ethical wildlife viewing practices and manage the interface between the Park’s wildlife and the 3+ million visitors who come to the Park each year. It has been an amazing opportunity. When not thinking about weather (it happens occasionally), my favorite days are filled with exploring new places in our Airstream, hiking the trails of Grand Teton, or capturing that early morning landscape. show less
Van Gurley
Co-Founder RV Weather Enterprises. President and CEO, Metron Inc.
I was that kid growing up – the math and science nerd. So, my current job is no real surprise. The surprise is the path that got me here.
While in college studying physics, the Navy called with the first of many offers I couldn’t refuse. I signed up for 4 years to be a submarine officer fully expecting to get out immediately afterward and go back to graduate school. What I didn’t expect was that 4 years would turn into 26 years as a submarine officer and naval meteorology & oceanographer specialist operating at the intersection of Navy operations and emerging technology. The Navy also gave me the opportunity to earn a couple of graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. + Read more… My many Navy assignments included working at the main Navy weather forecasting center for the Atlantic, boss of a local weather forecasting office in Italy, and assistant operations officer and head of weather forecasting for one of the aircraft carrier strike groups deployed for combat. Among the most unusual of my assignments was head of operations for a joint Navy-National Science Foundation ice camp 100+ miles north of Alaska for a couple of weeks. In my last Navy assignment, I was the head of all Navy weather forecasting and environmental support operations coordinating activities across seven major field offices and 84 deploying support teams. Over most of the last 10 years in the Navy, I worked with and for Dave Titley in multiple roles, including being his military deputy in the Pentagon. During that period, we refined concepts that now inform how we approached RV Weather. After retiring from the Navy in 2013, I joined Metron, Inc., a small high-tech company with a 40-year history of developing innovative solutions for some of the Pentagon’s hardest problems. I joke that we were deep into technologies that are now buzz words long before they were buzz words: artificial intelligence, autonomy, data analytics, and machine learning to name a few. In 2019, I was honored to be asked to step up and lead the company as President and CEO. Since then, we’ve been more active looking for dual-use opportunities to leverage what we’ve learned working wicked hard problems for the government to build new commercial applications. So, it was fortuitous that in 2022 Dave started telling to me about his latest hobby – staying up late every night to manually write forecasts and travel route recommendations for his friends in the RV community. I mentioned I might know a company that could automate this. It just so happened Metron had recently worked on some related problems so we had the necessary talent and technical foundations to turn Dave’s concept into reality. And that brings us full circle to what is now RV Weather Enterprises. show less
