Technology Report - New Supercomputers Aid Weather Forecasts

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Americans start to closely follow weather reports in the early fall the Atlantic hurricane season. Predicting the strength and movement of these storm systems is of crucial importance. Thanks to new supercomputers, meteorologists the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, are getting better predicting the weather as far as six days out. Hurricane Sandy the East Coast last October and caused deaths and widespread damage. was one of the costliest storms in United States history. At time, some people blamed meteorologists for not correctly predicting the path the storm. But weather forecasting is extremely difficult, says Ben Kyger. is the director of central operations at NOAA's National Centers for Prediction in College Park, Maryland. Ben Kyger says oceans are another because they closely interact with the atmosphere and have a huge on storms. NOAA has spent about $20 million on two new in an effort to improve the dependability of its forecasts. It a huge amount of computational power to examine data from weather , ground stations and other sources. It then takes a lot of to predict temperature, air pressure, humidity and wind speed. But human and experience are still very important to the process. Meteorologists at National Centers for Environmental Prediction scan the same data that the get before issuing a weather report. NOAA issues worldwide forecasts every hours, every day of the year. For VOA Learning English, I'm Villarreal.

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