Tech startups are offering weather forecasting services they claim are more accurate than forecasts offered by the Bureau of Meteorology.A geophysics professor says the technology is "exciting" but does not work well for long-term forecasts.
"This year was supposed to be a hot, dry year, and it ended up the wettest, muggiest year we've had for many years," Mr Johanson said.Mr Johanson said it ran to a tight planting and harvest timetable. Mr Johanson said he had been trialling a private weather forecasting service, Jane's Weather, for the past four weeks.
"National meteorological and hydrological services are and will always be critical and provide an invaluable service to the community at large." "This area of research is one of many initiatives the bureau actively pursues to improve its services to government, emergency management partners and the community," the spokesperson said.Speaking at a forum organised by the US-based Environmental and Energy Study Institute in January, Columbia University geophysics professor Pierre Gentine said artificial intelligence was ushering in a "second revolution for weather forecasting".