USING CONNECTED VEHICLES AS SECONDARY DATA SOURCES TO CONFIRM WEATHER DATA AND TRIGGERING EVENTS

Techniques for using connected vehicles as secondary data sources to confirm weather data and other triggering events are provided, including (1) determining indication of a weather event associated with a location of interest; (2) receiving indications of location data captured by location sensors associated with vehicles (such as vehicle-mounted sensors and/or mobile devices, virtual headsets, or wearables of passengers); (3) comparing the location data captured by the location sensors to a location of interest in order to identify one or more vehicles within a proximity of the location of interest; (4) receiving environmental sensor data captured by environmental sensors associated with one or more of the identified vehicles; and (5) determining, based upon the environmental sensor data captured by the environmental sensors associated with the one or more of the identified vehicles, an indication of an accuracy of the indication of the weather event associated with the location of interest.