"An unsexy department with a compelling story:" how Hong Kong's drainage authorities (and the private sector) are charting the future of flood-fighting: 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Weeks before the official start of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, signs are emerging that the coming months will be blistering in North America, Europe & Asia, threatening to tax grids & wilt crops. With @weathersullivan.bsky.social and @joewertz.bsky.social.
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Nevertheless, weather predictions are imperfect and every forecast contains an element of uncertainty.
In that vein, meteorologists like to quote the 20th century statistician George Box: “All models are wrong but some are useful.”
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“Weather isn’t extremely abstract, but the way we present the data is, and we can fix that,” said Knoweather Chief Executive Jonathan Chui. “We’ve been stuck with 2D graphics for too long.”
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Interesting sales pitch from this furniture shop in Hong Kong; "Tariff War - Big Sale 🇺🇸🇨🇳"
For decades, public agencies have run global weather models that require supercomputers to crunch complex equations to spit out predictions. Now, AI is opening space for smaller, commercial players to provide super granular & specialist forecasts: 🎁🔗
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The next frontier of forecasting will go beyond traditional weather data as forecasters, aided by new AI techniques, turn to non-weather inputs to help predict emerging weather risks and volatile climate patterns.
With @joewertz.bsky.social; 🎁🔗:
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US scientists are looking to the private sector & abroad for jobs as NOAA cuts headcount.
China is well positioned to take advantage: it aims to recruit 100 top experts from around the world by 2035 to tackle “key, core technical chokepoints” in the weather domain
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Intense storms in recent years has pushed the government and businesses to upgrade their responses to rain and flooding, and those efforts are working.