MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It may look like mission control at the North Pole, but it's actually FedEx's Global Operations Control Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The company monitors shipping routes in 220 countries, as a team of 13 meteorologists watches over weather that could slow them down.

"We tend to focus on the air side and the airports that we go into — say, like, Cleveland ," Kory Gempler, the manager of weather services for FedEx, told 3News. "But we're also concerned about once the package gets there, the journey isn't over. (It) has to go on a truck and on through the roads."

The center runs 24/7, all year long. Meteorologists track conditions on the ground and the sky — anything that could impact a pilot's flight path.

"Obviously we are concerned about ground weather and deicing

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