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We have just released the latest edition of our Best Places to Live or Work in the United States if You Need to Know What the Weather Will Be Like Tomorrow 2025 report! Download the full report here. Our Best Places reports are unique in that they use a combination of forecast accuracy from various...

New research led by the Met Office shows that machine learning-based weather models have the potential to revolutionize global seasonal forecasting. Existing methods to predicting seasonal forecasts, or forecasts for the next three months, involve running physics-based models multiple times to understand the likely scenarios, with probabilities then applied to different conditions. The Met Office...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has partnered with The University of Southern Mississippi and the robotics company Oshen to collect critical data and improve hurricane forecasting and research. On August 31st, NOAA launched five small uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) called C-Stars off the coast of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Two additional C-Stars are...

Chinese researchers led by Congqi Cao from Northwestern Polytechnical University have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can generate a five-day weather forecast within seconds using medical technology. The team discovered that AI models originally designed to identify tumors and analyze brain scans excel at recognizing weather patterns across regions. These medical imaging AI...

The BBC and the Met Office recently announced a new partnership that aims to deliver the most trusted and accurate weather service in the United Kingdom. The partnership brings together the BBC’s journalism and broadcasting expertise with the Met Office’s weather and climate science and intelligence to provide a better public service for all things...

July 2025 was one for the record books. Eighteen states in the central and eastern United States and Washington D.C. just experienced their most humid July since records began in 1981. An additional eight states experienced their second or third muggiest July on record. For the country as a whole, the United States just saw...

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If it seems like you’re hearing about flash flood warnings more than usual, you aren’t wrong. The National Weather Service has issued more flash flood warnings than in any other year since records began in 1986 through July 15th in 2025. More than 3,000 flash flood warnings, with the Appalachians, Ozarks, and Southern Plains hit...

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) has routinely disseminated ENSO forecasts each month since 2002. The forecasts include both deterministic and probabilistic forecasts, referred to as the IRI ENSO predictions plume, which provides insights into the expected ENSO conditions over the next nine overlapping 3-month periods. A paper* published in December 2024...

CNET, a trusted digital media publication that provides expert information, reviews, and analysis on consumer technologies, recently released its picks on the best weather phone applications in 2025. Maybe you like the built-in weather apps that Apple and Android provide. But if not, there are plenty of alternatives to find out what the weather will...

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