ForecastWatch August Wrap-up and News

August Wrap-Up

NEW FORECASTWATCH REPORT: Analysis of 2024 One-to-Five Day Out Forecasts

Our amazing analysts at ForecastWatch examined 15 different weather forecast providers plus persistence to provide a holistic analysis of weather forecast performance for global forecasts and forecasts in Europe made one-to-five days in advance for 2024. This report analyzed five weather forecasting metrics from each provider including 24-hour high temperature, 24-hour low temperature, probability of precipitation, text precipitation, and icon precipitation.

The link to our full report is in this blog!

Record Humidity in July for 18 States

July 2025 was one for the record books. Eighteen states in the central and eastern United States and Washington D.C. just experienced their most humid July since records began in 1981. An additional eight states experienced their second or third muggiest July on record. For the country as a whole, the United States just saw its third-highest humidity levels on record.

Find out what contributed to the higher humidity levels in this blog!

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A year and a half ago, our parent company Intellovations LLC launched a newsletter called ClimateWatch!

The goal is to bring you the week's most pressing climate issues, impacts, trends and forecasts, groundbreaking innovations, and actionable tips in our weekly newsletter dedicated to keeping you up-to-date on climate information. In the future, the plan is to include in-depth analyses from our experts in the newsletter. 

Check out the newsletters from August:

• ✈️ Climate Change is Making Plane Turbulence Worse

• 🇧🇷 Brazil Uses Sugarcane Waste to Build Roads

• 📝 35th Annual State of the Climate Report Released

• 🇵🇰 Deadly Floods in Pakistan Linked to Climate Change

New BBC and Met Office Partnership

The BBC and the Met Office recently announced a new partnership that aims to deliver the most trusted and accurate weather service in the United Kingdom. The partnership brings together the BBC’s journalism and broadcasting expertise with the Met Office’s weather and climate science and intelligence to provide a better public service for all things weather.

Learn more about this partnership in this blog!

Using Medical Technology to Improve Weather Forecasting

Chinese researchers led by Congqi Cao from Northwestern Polytechnical University have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can generate a five-day weather forecast within seconds using medical technology. The team discovered that AI models originally designed to identify tumors and analyze brain scans excel at recognizing weather patterns across regions.

Learn more about their technique in this blog!

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