{"id":210820,"date":"2025-04-07T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ai-picked-cyclone-alfred-hitting-qld-before-traditional-weather-models"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:20:40","slug":"ai-picked-cyclone-alfred-hitting-qld-before-traditional-weather-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ai-picked-cyclone-alfred-hitting-qld-before-traditional-weather-models","title":{"rendered":"AI picked Cyclone Alfred hitting Qld before traditional weather models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-picked-cyclone-alfred-hitting-qld-before-traditional-weather-models.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A week before Tropical Cyclone Alfred was nearing the east coast of Australia, most forecasts were favouring a path either well offshore or near the central Queensland coast.<\/p>\n<p>There was a curious anomaly though: an AI prediction from Google\u2019s DeepMind, called Graphcast, was predicting the centre of Alfred would be just 200 kilometres off the coast of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>That forecast, made 12 days before ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred crossed the south-east Queensland coast, was far more accurate than leading weather models used by meteorological organisations around the world, including our own Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week before Tropical Cyclone Alfred was nearing the east coast of Australia, most forecasts were favouring a path either well offshore or near the central Queensland coast. There was a curious anomaly though: an AI prediction from Google\u2019s DeepMind, called Graphcast, was predicting the centre of Alfred would be just 200 kilometres off the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}