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VIDEO: On the left is the new paper's "Deep Learning Weather Prediction " forecast. The middle is the actual weather for the 2017-18 year, and at right is the average weather for...
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Credit: Weyn et al./ Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Today's weather forecasts come from some of the most powerful computers on Earth. The huge machines churn through millions of calculations to solve equations to predict temperature, wind, rainfall and other weather events. A forecast's combined need for speed and accuracy taxes even the most modern computers.
The future could take a radically different approach. A collaboration between the University of Washington and Microsoft Research shows how artificial intelligence can analyze past weather patterns to predict future events, much more efficiently and potentially someday more accurately than today's technology.