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An innovative artificial-intelligence application enhances weather forecasting in the difficult subseasonal range, providing accurate forecasts of precipitation, temperature and pressure 3–5 weeks in advance. The tool refines both physics- and AI-based weather models and improves the early prediction of extremes of heat, cold, rainfall and flooding.
This is a summary of: Guan, H. et al. Advancing subseasonal forecasting with machine learning. Nature 658, 951–957 (2026).
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03077-0
‘Expert opinion’ is published under a CC BY 4.0 licence and Figure 1 is published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
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