As the annual tradition continues, weather-predicting rodents from all across North America emerged from their sleep and offered weather forecasts for either an early spring or six more weeks of winter. There are actually more than 80 weather-forecasting prognosticators, but not all of them record a prediction every year. On February 2, 2025, 43 groundhogs...
As weather apps on mobile devices become more and more popular, the public is quick to make judgments on which apps are and are not accurate. That is of course, in their own opinion, and based on their interpretation of what the app is saying. However, sometimes those interpretations are a misunderstanding of what the...
The need for more accurate global precipitation forecasts is growing as climate change is increasing the amount and intensity of water-related disasters like floods and droughts, as well as for the management of water resources. A research team in Japan has created an algorithm called Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter, or LETKF for short. LETKF...
It’s official – La Niña has finally emerged in the tropical Pacific. La Niña is the cool phase of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, a pattern of sea surface temperature and atmospheric changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean. We’ve been talking about La Niña’s arrival since spring of 2024, and although it took a little longer...
2024 will go down in history as the second-worst tornado season on record. 1,735 tornadoes have been confirmed so far in the United States, with the potential for a few more to be added from the late December outbreak. One of our clients, AccuWeather, breaks down the historical tornado season. In total, 53 people were...
Weather predictions have advanced over the years thanks to advances in technology. Over the last year or two, artificial intelligence has been a standout contributor to the improvement in accuracy and efficiency of weather forecasting. CEO Today Magazine highlighted 9 ways that AI has innovated weather forecasting. 1. Previously, weather data gathering relied on manual...
A new artificial intelligence tool from Google’s DeepMind is smashing barriers and achieving unmatched skill and speed in devising 15-day weather forecasts. The tool, called GenCast, hopes to help the public avoid the worst effects of extreme weather by providing reliable forecasts 15 days in advance. Last year, Google debuted DeepMind GraphCast and the original...
Knowing what the weather will bring is crucial for many. Despite weather forecasts that continue to improvise with increasing knowledge and technology, there remain places where weather can be difficult to forecast. If you want or need to know what the weather will be like tomorrow or in the next few days, avoiding these locations...
Eric Floehr, the founder and CEO of ForecastWatch, was recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about why weather apps can’t get the forecast right. With technology becoming even more powerful, like the creation of driverless vehicles and human-sounding chatbots, why are weather apps still so unreliable? Weather forecasts have gotten better over the past...
In nearly unanimous agreement, experts thought the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1st to November 30, would be one for the record books. Atlantic Ocean temperatures were historically warm and La Nina was forecast to develop during the hurricane season. Coupled together, that could make for an historic hurricane season. An...
