Moreover, research shows that increasing accuracy of weather forecasts can result in thousands of lives saved per year. One ...

AI matches daily forecasts like never before, but when it comes to heat, cold, and wind records, HRES physics rules.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a risk communicator focused on the impact of weather on business. Jul 15, 2025, 08:30am EDT The combination of AI, advanced ...

Gray swan events are extreme weather events that cause local devestation, like Hurricane Lee in 2023, shown here. Increasingly powerful AI models can make short-term weather forecasts with surprising ...

This week in the Boston Globe Weather Mailbag, we take a closer look at AI weather forecasting and how the technology is faring compared to traditional weather models. We also explore the changing ...

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 ...

Mud and debris as atmospheric rivers dumped rain in Studio City, Calif., in 2024. Forecasting heavy rain requires measurements from satellites, doppler radar, ocean buoys and other instruments, most ...

This week hundreds of people lost their jobs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service. Peak severe weather season is upon us, and hurricane ...

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Scientists found that neural networks cannot yet forecast 'gray swan' weather events, which might not appear in existing training data but could still happen -- like 200-year floods or massive ...

Researchers, from meteorologists to economists, are beginning to use AI for long-term risk assessments. For example, they might ask an AI to generate many examples of weather patterns, so that we can ...