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Tech giants unleash AI on weather forecasts: are they any good?
The biggest tech firms are using AI to forecast the weather but is that better than existing models?
A study from consultants, external, London Economics, concluded that the Met Office would bring £56bn of benefits to the UK economy over the course of a decade through providing meteorological services. Traditional weather forecasts are produced on some of the biggest supercomputers on the planet; the Met Office super computing contract is worth £1.2bn. That huge sum of money buys you a machine that can perform 60 quadrillion (60,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second, running a model containing the understood physics, with over a million lines of code and using 215 billion weather observations.
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