AI To The Rescue – Weather Forecasting Edition!
These are stormy times indeed, but we’re not just talking about the global geopolitical climate here. Even ‘actual’ weather is acting pretty hormonal and, thankfully, AI appears all set to intervene like a caring, predicting Mother Nature. Apparently, an enthusiastic researcher has turned Sherlock on some pretty rad weather models and promises some good news to developing countries. Intriguing, right? Here’s more!
Key Storm Chaos-busting Points
- Meet our protagonist, Kerry Plowright. Just a dude, chilling with his feet up watching telly. That is, until his phone notifies him of an incoming hailstorm. Well, hailstorms do make dramatic entrances, don’t they?
- Kerry braved the hail-fury to move his cars under canvas sails, sheltering them from what could have been a metal-battering hail shower. Home-1, Hailstorm-0.
- Apart from possibly starring in the next Marvel’s superhero “StormStopper”, Kerry leads us to wonder if there’s an intelligent way to predict these unruly weather patterns. Spoiler Alert: There is!
- Said intelligent way is leveraging AI, specifically machine learning, built from existing weather models to improve climate predictions.
- But the best part? Developing nations could benefit greatly from these AI-based forecasts. And we all know developing countries could use all the breaks they can get, right?
Wanna Wrap Up This Weather Tale?
So there you have it, folks! Yet another field where AI is ready to kick up a storm (pun very much intended)! Just like our man, Kerry, we may have to brave a few hails, find some canvas to protect our vehicles (or in this case, cost-effective technology for weather forecasting), and voila, we’ve got ourselves more reliable weather predictions. Seems, the future might hold fewer surprises for us – at least in the weather department. Watch out Mother Nature, there’s a new predictor in town!
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/can-the-power-of-artificial-intelligence-be-harnessed-help-to-predict-australias-weather
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