Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created the Aardvark Weather system for AI-based weather forecasting, The Guardian reports.

Usually, creating weather forecasting systems requires years of work by large teams of researchers, and forecasts themselves are generated using a complex set of steps, each of which takes several hours of work on special supercomputers, which requires large teams of experts to develop, maintain and deploy them.

Aardvark Weather offers a plan to replace the entire process by training artificial intelligence on raw data from weather stations, satellites, weather balloons, ships and aircraft from around the world so that it can make forecasts.

The system is based on recent research by Huawei, Google and Microsoft.

Scientists say that over time, the model will be able to provide accurate eight-day forecasts instead of five-day forecasts now, as well as hyperlocalized forecasts. In addition, it will help to better predict natural phenomena such as air quality, ocean dynamics, sea ice and natural disasters such as hurricanes, forest fires, tornadoes, etc. korrespondent.net.