AI could boost weather pattern warnings
Amid growing public skepticism, a concrete example of a beneficial use case.
TL;DR
- Tomorrow.io is building new weather satellites called DeepSky to provide earlier warnings for dangerous storms.
- Over 5 billion people lack ground-based weather radar coverage, leaving them vulnerable to severe weather.
- DeepSky satellites will measure temperature, moisture, ocean-surface winds, cloud structure, and precipitation.
- The gathered data will feed into numerical and AI weather models to improve forecasting.
- AI has shown promise in areas like wildfire detection, but its effectiveness in weather forecasting depends on data quality.
- The actual improvement in warning times with DeepSky technology still needs to be proven.