A.I. and machine learning are improving weather forecasts, but they won’t replace human experts
A century ago, English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson proposed a startling idea for that time: constructing a systematic process based on math for predicting the weather. … Richardson tried to write an equation that he could use to solve the dynamics of the atmosphere based on hand calculations. … A century later, modern weather forecasts are based on the kind of complex computations that Richardson imagined – and they’ve become more accurate than anything he envisioned. … For example, a forecast of heavy rainfall two days in advance is now as good as a same-day forecast was in the mid-1990s.