PredictWind Is Using AI to Rewrite Weather Forecasting for Sailors

PredictWind’s AI model was trained on 50 years of global weather data and is already improving on traditional American and European forecast models for sailors. Courtesy PredictWind

Predictwind meteorologist Arnaud Monges describes the past 50 years of weather forecasting the way Gen Z might describe a dusty calculus textbook from the 1980s. “You solve the equation, and you can predict the change of pressure that leads to change of wind and all those things,” Monges says. “That was weather forecasting.”

The old-school technique still works, of course, but PredictWind is now using artificial intelligence to build new forecasting methods. PredictWind G is based on the traditional American weather model, while PredictWind E is based on the European model. AI is then layered in.

“We trained the model by feeding it all the weather, all around the world, for all the parameters—wind, humidity, all those things,” he says. “We fed 50 years of historical data so the model can learn. It can compare what’s happening today and make the forecast.”

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