Microsoft just dropped Aurora — a shiny new AI model trained on over a million hours of weather data. Not even exaggerating.
This thing devours satellite feeds, radar input, weather station logs, and simulation forecasts like its brunch.
And now? It’s serving up shockingly accurate predictions on everything from air quality to full-blown typhoons.
No jokes here — it’s actually been proven to beat human meteorologists at their own game.
A few wild highlights:
Aurora predicted Typhoon Doksuri’s landfall in the Philippines... four days early. That’s before some experts even had a clue.
It outperformed the National Hurricane Center in forecasting five-day tropical cyclone tracks for the 2022–2023 season. Yes, really.
And that massive Iraq sandstorm in 2022? Aurora saw it coming too. (Imagine being able to cancel your outdoor plans before the dust hits your lungs.)
And unlike traditional forecasting systems that need hours and massive supercomputers to run, Aurora does its thing in seconds. Literal seconds.
The best part? Microsoft isn’t gatekeeping.
They’ve made the source code and model weights public, so if you’re into AI or weather science, you can mess around with it too.
Oh — and heads up — they’re already rolling Aurora tech into the MSN Weather app, which means your hourly forecasts are about to level up big time. Yes, even for cloud cover.
Bottom line?
Microsoft’s not just chasing storms — it’s redefining how we see them coming.
And if Aurora keeps this up, the next-gen weather report might sound a lot less like “maybe rain” and more like “brace yourself, it’s coming at 3:47 PM.”
The only question now is: Can you trust an AI to predict the weather better than your favorite weather app or experts?
Full details here.
