{"id":9493,"date":"2026-06-09T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:22","slug":"the-weather-and-climate-science-ai-revolution-isnt-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9493","title":{"rendered":"The weather and climate science AI revolution isn\u2019t revolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Scott K. Johnson<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 8, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>It feels like there&#8217;s no escaping AI right now, whether you\u2019re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital \u201cassistant\u201d or struggling to find a new refrigerator that doesn\u2019t require a Wi-Fi connection for some reason. You\u2019d be forgiven for wondering if we\u2019re in the midst of a quantum leap in tech or whether people are just hyping up a heap of slop.<\/p>\n<p>So what should we make of the growing use of AI in weather and climate modeling?<\/p>\n<p>The conversation didn&#8217;t get off to a great start earlier this year when a National Weather Service office posted a forecast map <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2026\/01\/06\/nws-ai-map-fake-names\/\">featuring nonexistent cities<\/a> in Idaho with names like \u201cWhata Bod\u201d and \u201cOrangeotild.\u201d Thankfully, that was just an AI-generated image produced for social media, not the actual forecast model. Meteorologists and climate scientists are not yet being replaced by large language model prompt engineers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/the-weather-and-climate-science-ai-revolution-isnt-revolutionary\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/the-weather-and-climate-science-ai-revolution-isnt-revolutionary\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/the-weather-and-climate-science-ai-revolution-isnt-revolutionary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott K. Johnson &bull; June 8, 2026 It feels like there&#8217;s no escaping AI right now, whether you\u2019re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital \u201cassistant\u201d or struggling to find a new refrigerator that doesn\u2019t require a Wi-Fi connection for some reason. You\u2019d be forgiven for wondering if we\u2019re in the<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9493\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}