{"id":6728,"date":"2025-04-21T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:36:37","slug":"nssl-and-ciwro-pushing-the-frontier-of-thunderstorm-scale-ai-weather-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2025\/04\/nssl-and-ciwro-pushing-the-frontier-of-thunderstorm-scale-ai-weather-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSL and CIWRO Pushing the Frontier of Thunderstorm-Scale AI Weather Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new paper<\/a> on artificial intelligence in forecasting, authored by the NOAA<\/a> National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO)<\/a>, was selected by the American Geophysical Union (AGU)<\/a> and the editors of Geophysical Research Letters<\/em><\/a> to be featured as a Research Spotlight on EOS.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View the paper<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Left: NSSL’s AI-powered WoFSCast predicts thunderstorm development up to two hours in advance.
Right: Actual real-world thunderstorm reflectivity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NSSL and CIWRO\u2019s submission discusses a new artificial intelligence model, WoFSCast, that can accurately predict how storms will evolve up to two hours in advance. The process of generating a prediction takes less than a minute, making it significantly faster than current systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The cheaper and faster forecasts enabled by WoFSCast will further extend forecast and warning lead times based on the Warn-on-Forecast concept,\u201d said Adam Clark, acting NSSL Branch Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By using an AI-enhanced system, the National Weather Service may be able to issue severe weather warnings earlier and reduce the harm caused by these extreme weather events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGU Research Spotlights summarize the research and findings of the best accepted articles for the broad Earth and space science community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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