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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Rachel Hall and Ian Sample

AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported

Weather station covered in snow with a blue sky and white clouds behind; people with rucksacks and skis are passing while another person and a dog stands to the side.
The weather station at the summit of Cairn Gorm, Strathspey, Scotland, 18 March 2025. AI can be trained on raw data from weather stations, satellites, weather balloons, ships and planes to predict and provide forecasts. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

A single researcher with a desktop computer will be able to deliver accurate weather forecasts using a new AI weather prediction approach that is tens of times faster and uses thousands of times less computing power than conventional systems.

Weather forecasts are currently generated through a complex set of stages, each taking several hours to run on bespoke supercomputers, requiring large teams of experts to develop, maintain and deploy them.

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