{"id":241709,"date":"2026-05-08T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/ncar-develops-ai-tools-to-improve-severe-weather-forecasting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:00:10","slug":"ncar-develops-ai-tools-to-improve-severe-weather-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/ncar-develops-ai-tools-to-improve-severe-weather-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAR develops AI tools to improve severe weather forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAR develops AI tools to improve severe weather forecasting<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2026\/05\/08\/ncar-develops-ai-tools-to-improve-severe-weather-forecasting\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-08 10:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.dailycamera.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder is developing artificial intelligence tools that enable forecasters to predict severe weather threats more accurately and farther in advance.<\/p>\n

While traditional computer models can predict tornadoes, and hail and wind events two to three days in advance, NCAR\u2019s AI models can anticipate those events up to eight days in advance with higher accuracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese tools are allowing us to look into the future further, to get an indication of where these events will happen,\u201d NCAR scientist Ryan Sobash said.<\/p>\n

Until 2019 or 2020, Sobash said, all forecasts were created by relying on big, complex and expensive computer models that take a lot of computing power. Now, AI has accelerated all of that. The AI tools are trained on how to analyze the atmosphere, and once they\u2019re trained, they can create forecasts in minutes instead of hours and have the capacity to run a lot more models. And, Sobash has found, the AI tools provide better predictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these models are actually more accurate than the older computationally intensive techniques,\u201d Sobash said.<\/p>\n

NCAR is disseminating these forecasts online and to other labs and forecasters. The experimental forecasts will be evaluated in the coming weeks at NOAA\u2019s Hazardous Weather Testbed in Oklahoma.\n<\/p>\n

The models are trained to look at severe weather across the U.S., including in Colorado. Sobash anticipates these models will allow Boulder and Colorado to get a better picture of hail, wind and thunderstorms before they happen, especially entering late May and June, a particularly active time for that type of weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose (weather events) are affecting people in increased ways for a variety of reasons, and so we\u2019re trying to develop these tools to give people additional lead time by improving the accuracy of the forecast,\u201d Sobash said.<\/p>\n

In the future, Sobash said, he hopes to adapt these AI tools to predict other types of weather events, including…<\/p>\n

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