{"id":228711,"date":"2026-06-09T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/world-weather-forecasting-completely-upended-by-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:50:21","slug":"world-weather-forecasting-completely-upended-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/world-weather-forecasting-completely-upended-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"World weather forecasting &#8216;completely upended&#8217; by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0609\/1577577-oireachtas-committee-artificial-intelligence\/\">World weather forecasting &#8216;completely upended&#8217; by AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0609\/1577577-oireachtas-committee-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0609\/1577577-oireachtas-committee-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 10:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rte.ie\">www.rte.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically improved weather forecasting, according to Prof Andrew Parnell.<\/li>\n<li>AI-based forecasting is estimated to be 10 to 15% more accurate and significantly more efficient than traditional methods.<\/li>\n<li>The AIFS system introduced in 2022 by the Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting has outperformed traditional methods and is in daily use.<\/li>\n<li>Prof Parnell noted that AI weather models have lower environmental footprints compared to large language models used in other AI applications.<\/li>\n<li>There is a concern about the environmental impact of AI, especially in terms of energy consumption by data centers.<\/li>\n<li>Prof Parnell highlighted that Ireland excels in data-driven AI and he hopes for continued support from the committee.<\/li>\n<li>Prof Daly expressed concern that Ireland\u2019s current energy policies could hinder efforts to meet carbon budgets due to the rapid growth of data centers.<\/li>\n<li>The meeting&#8217;s chair is now TD James Geoghegan following the resignation of TD Malcolm Byrne last week due to being arrested on suspicion of drink driving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World weather forecasting &#8216;completely upended&#8217; by AI https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0609\/1577577-oireachtas-committee-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-09 10:29:00 Source Domain: www.rte.ie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/images\/0016c766-1600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-228711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228713,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228711\/revisions\/228713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}