How NOAA is Using AI & GOES-19 to Enhance Hurricane Forecasting
Sustainability Analyst Bonnie Schneider explains how NOAA is using artificial intelligence and the new GOES-19 satellite to enhance hurricane tracking this season. The upgrades promise faster, more accurate forecasts to help protect communities.
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Hurricane Season 2025 brings major advances in forecasting. No is expanding its use of artificial intelligence building on several years of AI integration to test new models alongside traditional methods in real time. Early research shows AI systems can improve tropical storm tracking by 20 to 25% over two to five day periods.
They also work faster. Traditional physics-based models require hours of processing time. AI delivers the results in under a minute.
The National Hurricane Center will use AI tools to supplement, not replace official models. Supporting these improvements is Noah's new goes 19 satellite, which just became operational in April. Monitoring tropical regions, it will provide more detailed and timely data than previous systems.
So in terms of tropical activity, what can we expect this year? No predicts an above average hurricane. Season 13 to 19, named storms including six to 10 hurricanes and three to five major hurricanes.
The integration of AI and advanced modeling systems represents a significant step forward in protecting lives and property from these destructive weather systems.
