I came across an interesting article in Popular Mechanics about new weather forecasting technology being used in the 2010 Olympic games. The 2010 Olympic games are being held in Vancouver this year. A challenge with this location is that Vancouver is the warmest city yet to host the games. To avoid unsafe weather conditions, a new short term weather forecasting system called nowcasting is being used.
Nowcast weather models will be used in many advanced ways. For example the models will assess the weather every 15 minutes instead of typical weather forecasts which predict an entire day; which as we all know is subject to change. Check out the attached article for more interesting ways about how nowcasting is being used to measure snowfall, etc. Good stuff!
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