December Wrap-Up

NEW REPORTS RELEASED:

EUROPE and GLOBAL Best Places to Live!

As with the United States, here at ForecastWatch, we analyzed the reliability of weather forecasts and persistence in Europe, as well as globally. The United States, Europe, and Global reports are all now available on our website.Our Best Places reports are unique in that they use a combination of forecast accuracy from various weather providers and an assumption that the current weather will continue over the next several days to determine locations where the weather is most and least predictable in the short term.This information can benefit your business if you need to know where the weather is most predictable, help you conduct outdoor activities if you see you live in a place with more unpredictable weather, or even help you plan your next vacation!

Google DeepMind Produces Accurate Weather Forecasts, Very Quickly

Artificial intelligence (AI) weather forecasts remain experimental, but Google DeepMind’s machine-learning model, called GraphCast, has recently produced forecasts that have been better than numerical forecast models and other AI forecasts.The model is so simple that it can be run on a typical desktop computer in minutes. While still experimental, this is potentially promising to the future of AI weather forecasting, which runs thousands of times faster than the current standard numerical models, which run on supercomputers and involve complex physics.

ForecastWatch Founder and CEO Talks with BBC

Eric Floehr, founder and CEO of ForecastWatch, was recently interviewed by BBC about how weather apps are trying to become more accurate.Eric says that tech improvements have resulted in improvements to forecasts, but financial backing for new weather apps and in the field of predicting extreme weather is lacking.Read the full article here.

ClimateWatch COMING SOON!

In January, we will be launching a new project called ClimateWatch. ClimateWatch will be a weekly newsletter featuring climate information, research, impacts, and analysis. Stay tuned for more information!

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