Microsoft Product Threatens Weatherman Layoffs
Like models from Google and Nvidia before it, Microsoft is using its AI prowess to forecast the weather. It is believable that the three could have better forecasts than human-controlled models, which are often flawed and do not agree with one another.
According to The New York Times, the newest product is Aurora, the A.I. weather model from Microsoft. “And it was built to handle not only weather, but also any Earth system with data available. That means it can be trained, relatively easily, to forecast things like air pollution and wave height in addition to weather events like tropical cyclones.”
Layoffs Already Started
The announcement comes just as the federal government has laid off a large number of people at NOAA, the parent of the National Weather Service. An investigation by The Washington Post shows that some weather offices are no longer manned full-time. Tornado and hurricane season starts next week. The threat to humans and property has been terrible in the last year.
NOAA has forecast that this hurricane season can be one of the most active in history and may produce five major storms. Accurdwearth agrees with that assessment and says that the reason is extremely high water temperatures in the South Atlantic.
Inland Storms
Storms moving inland are even harder to forecast. Last year, Florida was hit by hurricane-caused tornadoes, and North Carolina experienced flooding.
There is a chance weathermen could be displaced by AI even without government cuts.
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