AI continues to prove successful as an important tool for fire weather forecasters, both with thunderstorm prediction and increasing situational awareness for active fires caused by lightning.
AI techniques being used by NOAA/NESDIS for lightning prediction to assist with early fire detection have proved successful over the past several years.
Alongside NASA, the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration is pushing forward with its GOES-R program to help broaden earth and space-bound weather phenomena.