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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Peter Hannam

Can the power of artificial intelligence be harnessed to help predict Australia’s weather?

A man walks through ankle deep water on a rural street
A flooded street in Rochester, Victoria, this month. Weather forecasters and warning services are experimenting with artificial intelligence to aid in predicting and warning of extreme events. Photograph: Diego Fedele/Getty Images

Kerry Plowright had his feet up and was watching TV one evening late last year when his phone warned of incoming hail.

“I was stunned when I walked out the door because there was just this roar,” he says, describing the sound of hailstones hitting roofs in the New South Wales town of Kingscliff. He had just enough time to move his cars under canvas sails, sparing them from damage.

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