New Tech Could Make for Better Weather Forecasting
Tools for forecasting
extreme weather have advanced in recent decades, but researchers and engineers
at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to enhance
radars, satellites and supercomputers to further lengthen warning times for
tornadoes and thunderstorms and to better determine hurricane intensity and
forecast floods, according to a story in the Scientific American.
The story continues, “If
the efforts succeed, a decade from now residents will get an hour’s warning
about a severe tornado, for example, giving them plenty of time to absorb the
news, gather family and take shelter.”