AI is reshaping weather forecasting, giving forecasters—and businesses—critical extra time to prepare for extreme weather.

About this time of year, an annual debate begins about winter weather predictions. Some of the most intense conversations center around the Famers’ Almanac. Scientific American published an analysis ...

The ICON model can be used for weather forecasting as well as climate predictions and long-term projections. So far, however, the different applications have been developed separately. An initiative ...

Ever since artificial intelligence entered the mainstream, scientists have been eager to unleash it on weather forecasting. The forecasts we get from our smartphones, TVs, and smart speakers take a ...

It was only a generation or two ago that weather forecasts were not to be taken too seriously: funny-guy meteorologists on the local news wisecracking about ruined golf plans. That has long stopped ...

Every day, meteorologist Hannah Wangari takes the free graphs and maps produced by the five forecasting models she subscribes to and interprets what she sees. “What’s the likelihood of rain in ...

As climate change makes extreme weather more likely, and more unpredictable, meteorologists and government agencies need new tools to keep up. Two studies published this week in the scientific journal ...

Climatologists have spent decades amassing data on how the weather has changed at points around the globe. Efforts such as ERA5, a record of climate back to 1950, developed by the European Centre for ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new weather forecasting model that can match the accuracy of older, more expensive models but do it cheaper and faster. The latest model, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Developments in machine learning are continuing at breathtaking pace, both inside and outside of weather forecasting. To help assess machine learning weather forecasts from different sources, we now ...