The Nerd Series

Scientists Believe Al Program Could Be The Future Of Hurricane Forecasting

Science July, 05, 2025

Keeping up with Geophysical Research Letters, Scientists have been using NASA satellite to explain how algorithms could spot the revealing signs of a storm that were believed to become much more powerful. However, they sensed it to be difficult to predict the future intensity of a storm. There were numerous factors on the ground, but NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has edged to a few key variables that an Al algorithm could possibly explore in order to make an appropriate and accurate prediction.

As per JPL, researchers have been positive about the rainfall near the core of the storm as it seemed to be gearing up for something big. The intensity of the storm could also be judged by observing the water ice that is present in the hurricane intense formations of the cloud. Also, it was believed that with the more intense power of winds, the odds of getting the water heightened that could turn into ice, grows up.

In these odd hours of the world, the news of how NASA satellite could have eyes wide open on all this was a kind of sense of relief. The article mentioned that the treat gets doubled when both, Satellites and Al algorithm program come together and produce the early warning for all those who were on the path of the storm that was, as previously mentioned, much powerful. This clearly indicates that both the parties together can act as a “sniff dog” and prevent the unfortunate happening to take away the lives of many.

The researchers cannot be happier about a fact that their new framework for testing the future predictions of intensity of the storm has been 40% to 200% more accurate than the standard method earlier used to predict the rapid intensification (or RI for short). Everything has its bad and good effects. On the other side of the fence, the rate of false positives came out to be only 4% to 7% higher. Appreciatively, the risk level of this was quite low with a great amount of improvement.

Luckily, hurricanes are no longer considered as non-predictable species. Now we have plenty of information or data that could update us about when? And where? Questions of the strike of the hurricanes. However, it is still a difficult part to guess the intensity of a hurricane, in which the latter is about to hit the land. As mentioned in the piece of article, by combining artificial intelligence and satellite data, the geniuses can easily save a lot more lives from being hit by the powerful storms. There is still a lot of work before the Al predicts the weather to be executed, but as we are developing the techniques, things seem to be quite promising.

The post Scientists Believe Al Program Could Be The Future Of Hurricane Forecasting appeared first on The Nerd Series.