Artificial intelligence is sprouting up as one of the most promising revolutionary technologies in meteorology, and weather-AI experts say it’s just the beginning.
One version of the cutting-edge technology made a remarkable accomplishment this month. A European-made artificial intelligence computer model predicted Hurricane Francine’s development nearly 10 days before the storm lashed the southern Louisiana coast, beating most of the traditional models.
The AI forecast “did a really good job of latching onto Francine quite early,” University of Oklahoma professor Amy McGovern told FOX Weather. McGovern runs the A.I. Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather.
Meteorologists rarely put total confidence into a single model but instead, look at a suite of model forecasts. Most global models compute 10-day outlooks every six hours and one way forecasters gauge a model’s reliability is by checking its consistency from run to run.
The AI model aced this test also. The AI alternative predicted landfall in southern Louisiana every run up …