- Public confidence in AI weather forecasts is far lower than for numerical and physics-based methods
- Just 11% said they were "very confident" in machine learning weather prediction, compared with 30% for tried-and-trusted methods
- The Met Office has been using machine learning techniques in weather forecasting for some years
A survey of 6,000 UK adults has found that the majority don’t fully trust the idea of AI weather forecasts. While machine learning techniques have been a factor of weather forecasting for some years, the survey found that people are more relaxed about traditional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) as opposed to Machine Learning Weather Prediction (MLWP).
