AI could replace outdated weather models, but it needs humans and funding. Meteorologist Carrie Suffern pictured with a weather balloon at National Weather Service Headquarters in 2012. Image: ...

Meteorologists and other environmental scientists rely on numerical forecast models to aid in developing a weather outlook. These models, such as the American GFS model and European ECMWF model, use ...

Increasingly powerful AI models can make short-term weather forecasts with surprising accuracy. But neural networks only predict based on patterns from the past—what happens when the weather does ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a risk communicator focused on the impact of weather on business. Jul 15, 2025, 08:30am EDT The combination of AI, advanced ...

Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government data — and the agency that provides it is in turmoil. A WindBorne weather ...

Accurately predicting the weather is hard — really hard, but a new AI-powered forecast model just hit a milestone that has experts saying your forecast could soon get more accurate, and further out, ...

A forecaster monitors incoming data for Hurricane Irma in 2017 at the National Hurricane Center, part of the NOAA. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images All of that information goes into ...

Christine Wiedinmyer is the CIRES Associate Director for Science. CIRES is a CU Boulder research institute that has a cooperative agreement (grant) with NOAA called the Cooperative Institute for Earth ...