Next week marks the start of a hurricane season that weather experts predict will generate an above-average number of tropical storms. While there’s no stopping a hurricane, data scientists with longtime ForecastWatch client, The Weather Company, hope to give those in the path of a big storm more accurate predictions of damage so they can better prepare.
As our analytics have shown, meteorologists are much-improved at predicting the intensity and the path of tropical storms over the past several decades. The amount of forewarning that residents now receive has been instrumental in reducing the loss of life associated with these mammoth storms.
