— Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announcing an initiative to plan for future weather events in New York City.
It will be interesting to watch present and future weather to determine if these relationships between waves and weather continue.
But as more people use the app, the team should be able to refine the algorithms to make better calculations and predictions about current and future weather.
Last month the Met Office published data commissioned by the government which mapped out future weather patterns if we fail to curb our CO2 emissions.
If there is one criticism of this app it is about the way of dialing forward to future weather predictions, which is done by dragging a marker around the clock to move it symbolically forward or backward in time.
The researchers, Mikhail A. Semenov and Peter R. Shewry, who work at a leading British agricultural center called Rothamsted Research, combined this database of hypothetical future weather with a program that mimics the growth of wheat crops.
A delicate wildflower in a garden of weeds, Lauduree, the 13-year-old protagonist of Jenny Deller's "Future Weather," has little resemblance to her relatives in a scraggly Midwestern backwater.
Everyone talks about the future weather, but so far nobody has done much about it, not even the many people and politicians convinced that climate change will be a serious problem.
The federal agency provides, among other forecasts, one that divides North America into a grid of boxes 12 kilometers, or about seven miles, on each side, and uses computer modeling to simulate future weather at the corner of each box.
One place where the frontier of forecasting is already being pushed is at private forecasting companies whose predictions are sold to commodities traders, utilities, or other customers whose business relies on anticipating future weather.
Peter J. Minnett, chairman of the meteorology and physical oceanography department at the University of Miami, said that GPS receivers of the kind PlanetIQ proposes would probably be included in future weather satellites, but that it would take time to put a significant number in use.
