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ForecastWatch May Wrap-up and News

ForecastWatch May Wrap-up and News

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

May 29, 2025

May Wrap-Up

GOES-19 Now Operational

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite is now officially operational as GOES East. In its new role, GOES-19 will track hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean basin, as well as monitor severe weather, atmospheric rivers, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, and other environmental events affecting the contiguous U.S.

The satellite will also deliver high-resolution visible and infrared imagery, atmospheric measurements, and real-time mapping of lightning. Additionally, GOES-19 is equipped with space weather instruments to monitor the sun, including NOAA’s first compact coronagraph instrument (CCOR-1).

University Student Makes Drought-prediction Breakthrough

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 55 million people worldwide are affected by drought each year, with that number expected to grow as the climate continues to change.

A fourth-year student at the University of Waterloo in Canada is using artificial intelligence to enhance drought predictions. The student, Andrew Watford, says the goal was to bring together mathematics and machine learning to develop new methodologies and push the field forward to predict drought. While they’re not there yet, Watford and two of his supervising professors hope to create a tool to predict drought up to five years in advance.

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meteoblue Adds Thousands of New Weather Stations and Enhances Weather Maps

meteoblue has broadened its weather monitoring capabilities by incorporating thousands of additional weather station data from countries around the world. This data will provide more precise and timely atmospheric insights for both the general public and businesses.

meteoblue added more than 4,000 new weather stations to their weather maps and the meteoblue Learning MultiModel. The biggest additions included 1,675 stations were added in Norway, 724 in Poland, 675 in Australia, and 434 in Czechia. The company also improved the processing and integration of more than 40,000 weather stations on the American continent.

Amazon Web Services Aims to Improve Weather Forecasting

Amazon Web Services is aiming to improve weather forecasting accuracy with its Amazon AppSteam 2.0 product, a managed application streaming service that enables users to stream desktop applications from Amazon Web Services to any device without additional hardware or software.

AppStream 2.0 can now incorporate AWIPS, a weather forecasting and display system used by the NWS and other meteorological agencies worldwide, as well as its client-side app, CAVE.

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