ForecastWatch December Wrap-up and News

A look back at ForecastWatch blog posts and ClimateWatch newsletters over the last month.

January 02, 2025

December Wrap-Up

A look back at ForecastWatch blog posts and ClimateWatch newsletters over the last month. We also released a new report: Global Best Places to Live 2024!

We wish everyone happy holidays and a happy new year!

Hurricane Season Comes to a Close – Whose Predictions Were Most Accurate?

In nearly unanimous agreement, experts thought the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1st to November 30, would be one for the record books. Atlantic Ocean temperatures were historically warm and La Nina was forecast to develop during the hurricane season. Coupled together, that could make for an historic hurricane season.

An average hurricane season produces 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes. Several hurricane forecast providers published their predictions in the spring, with all of them expecting an above-normal hurricane season. Which provider was most accurate? Find out in our blog.

Global Best Places to Live Report 2024

Knowing what the weather will bring is crucial for many. Despite weather forecasts that continue to improvise with increasing knowledge and technology, there remain places where weather can be difficult to forecast. If you want or need to know what the weather will be like tomorrow or in the next few days, avoiding these locations can be important to your business or personal needs.

At ForecastWatch, we’ve done the legwork for you, analyzing and ranking nearly 2000 locations worldwide by the capability to predict weather for the next three days. Find out which locations had the highest and lowest accuracies and download the full report in our blog.

Subscribe to the ClimateWatch newsletter!

Earlier this year, 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 December:

ForecastWatch in The Wall Street Journal

Eric Floehr, the founder and CEO of ForecastWatch, was recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about why weather apps can’t get the forecast right.

With technology becoming even more powerful, like the creation of driverless vehicles and human-sounding chatbots, why are weather apps still so unreliable?

Read why Eric thinks weather apps are unreliable, and what he suggests we can do about it.

Google’s AI GenCast Aces 15-Day Forecasts

A new artificial intelligence tool from Google’s DeepMind is smashing barriers and achieving unmatched skill and speed in devising 15-day weather forecasts. The tool, called GenCast, hopes to help the public avoid the worst effects of extreme weather by providing reliable forecasts 15 days in advance.

Last year, Google debuted DeepMind GraphCast and the original tool produced reliable forecasts up to 10 days in advance. Researchers say they believe they’ve made decades worth of improvements in one year, with rapid progress in the new GenCast tool.

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