Gray swan events are extreme weather events that cause local devestation, like Hurricane Lee in 2023, shown here. Increasingly powerful AI models can make short-term weather forecasts with surprising ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a risk communicator focused on the impact of weather on business. Jul 15, 2025, 08:30am EDT The combination of AI, advanced ...

Millions of Americans rely on their local weather forecasts, but as peak storm season approaches, have the Trump administration’s budget cuts made it harder to accurately predict the weather?

How are we still getting caught in the rain? This week’s Galaxy Brain explores the world of weather forecasting—specifically the apps on our phones that we have come to rely on. As climate change ...

Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government data — and the agency that provides it is in turmoil. A WindBorne weather ...

Forecasting the weather is harder south of the equator than north of it. Antarctica and the ocean around it have very few ...

When supply chain practitioners think about forecasting, they focus on demand forecasting. Demand forecasting is essential, but the number of different forecasts that an effective organization should ...

Weather forecasting is not easy. The truth is that predicting future weather conditions over broad, or even narrow, swaths of Earth's surface comes down to complex microphysical processes, and as ...

CLEVELAND — OK. I have a confession to make. Sometimes meteorologists miss the forecast. Every day, meteorologists around the world work non-stop to predict what the sky will do next. We have the best ...

Weather forecasting AIs work in a similar way to other neural networks that many people now interact with, such as ChatGPT. Essentially, the model is "trained" by feeding it a bunch of text or images ...