Inside Google’s plans to revolutionise the weather forecast
Traditional methods have involved ‘physical models’ run on supercomputers the size of a bus. GraphCast can be run on a laptop, and come up with a weather forecast in minutes.
On a screen in the headquarters of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), in Reading, a batch of unassuming pixels trails along a map of the United States. At first yellow, then green or blue, they form a tadpole shape as they pass above the southern states of Texas and Louisiana.
These pixels represent Hurricane Beryl, which tore through the south of the United States in early July – and a major breakthrough in weather forecasting, one that won the team behind it the “Nobel prize of engineering”, the MacRobert Award, on the same day that Beryl hit.
The Telegraph London
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