Climate-Fueled Disasters Spur UN Plan to Fund Weather Forecasting in Vulnerable Nations November 4, 2021 By Andrea Januta and Kanupriya Kapoor GLASGOW – As climate change triggers deadly heatwaves, droughts and floods, three U.N. agencies on Wednesday rolled out funding plans...
National Weather Service Upgrades Forecast Model March 25, 2021 By Seth Borenstein The National Weather Service has turbocharged its lagging forecast model to better predict extreme weather events such as hurricanes, blizzards...
European Researchers Turn to AI to Build Better Weather Data January 26, 2021 By Jonathan Tirone European scientists who feed critical climate data to industry and researchers said that their next great breakthrough in weather forecasting...
Report: Florida Will See Noticeable Climate Change Impacts in 20 Years February 6, 2020 By Don Jergler When scientists talk about climate change effects like sea level rise and extreme temperatures, they’re typically referring to things predicted...
Artificial Intelligence Helps to Contain Wildfires, Predict Wild Weather August 5, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan On a tower in the Brazilian rainforest, a sentinel scans the horizon for the first signs of fire. Only these...
From Insurers to Traders to Retailers, More Industries Depend on Weather Tracking April 1, 2019 By Eric Roston, Brian K. Sullivan and Alexandra Semenova Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. Eilts, senior...
Can Climate Change Make The Groundhog A Better Forecaster? February 2, 2017 By Don Jergler Donald Trump has no problem saying what he’s thinking – as he proved during a phoner with Australian Prime Minister...
Meteorologists Can Predict Tornadoes Weeks in Advance March 7, 2016 By Seth Borenstein Researchers say they’ve come up with a way to predict the likelihood of tornadoes two or three weeks in advance...
National Weather Service Tweaks Storm Warnings August 14, 2014 By Kelly P. Kissell The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said it is adding two threat levels to its weather outlooks so people...
National Weather Service Chief Focused on Improving Forecasting March 14, 2013 By Tom Brown Computing power gives Europeans a commanding advantage when it comes to weather forecasting and storm tracking, but the new head...