How About Letting AI Take Care of Weather Forecasting?

The journal Earth and Space Science identifies AI technologies as key for reducing human forecasters' workloads while delivering more accurate and timely predictions. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also says incorporating AI and machine learning significantly increases the prediction ability of extreme weather such as thunderstorms and hurricanes. Google is an industry pioneer. The tech giant presented new research into the development of deep learning models for precipitation forecasting in December, 2019. The team treated forecasting as an image-to-image translation problem and leveraged the power of the ubiquitous UNET convolutional neural network.