The study evaluates how forecast lead time influences the effectiveness of outage predictions for crew deployment using AI weather models GraphCast and FourCastNet. It finds that the ability to capture outage burden decreases with longer lead times, with a notable drop between three and five days. Early deployment with all requested crews outperforms late deployment with fewer crews, and the study also examines the impact of antecedent land surface predictors and calibration of prediction intervals for tropical cyclone events.
arXiv:2608.24665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Power outage prediction models are increasingly used in assessments of climate-driven infrastructure risk, yet current evaluation practices obscure whe...
The study evaluates probabilistic AI weather models—GenCast, FourCastNet 3, and FGN—against the ECMWF IFS-ENS ensemble for tropical cyclone forecasting. Using new probabilistic metrics, the authors find that AI models, particularly FGN, outperform IFS-ENS in cyclone tracking, achieving better location scores for 90% of storms in 2025. The analysis also identifies intensity and spread limitations, model‑specific failure modes, and the influence of pretraining data, highlighting opportunities for targeted improvement.
The paper introduces Probabilistic Bias Correction (PBC), a machine learning framework that learns to correct historical probabilistic forecasts, thereby reducing systematic errors in subseasonal weather predictions. Applied to leading dynamical and AI models from ECMWF, PBC doubles the AI system’s modest subseasonal skill and improves the operationally-debiased dynamical model for most pressure, temperature, and precipitation targets. In ECMWF’s 2025 real‑time forecasting competition, PBC’s global forecasts ranked first across all weather variables and lead times, outperforming multiple operational and ensemble models.
arXiv:2604. 16238v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decision-makers rely on weather forecasts to plant crops, manage wildfires, allocate water and energy, and prepare for weather extremes.
The paper introduces WxCrop, an agentic AI system that evaluates agricultural hazards by combining physically interpretable weather indices with causal analysis. It predicts crop loss for past and forecast dates, demonstrating high accuracy in Florida for hurricanes, freezes, and dry heat, with an AUC of 0.98 for hurricane detection and loss predictions within 2% of recorded values. The system provides crop‑group loss estimates as a fraction of expected season value, enabling rapid response by governments, growers, and scientists.
The paper presents Laxmi, a retrained version of the AIFS weather model that uses satellite-based precipitation observations instead of ERA5 reanalysis data. Laxmi achieves a 19% improvement in global probabilistic accuracy, reduces drizzle overprediction by 33%, and boosts the 95th percentile Brier skill score by 57%. In a case study of 10 Indian tropical storms, Laxmi accurately forecasted 150 mm event-total precipitation in 7 events, outperforming both the original AIFS and the leading physical model IFS.
arXiv:2609.22702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate flood forecasts several days in advance are essential for flood control, water-resource management, and emergency response. Producing them at...
arXiv:2610.09898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessing compound weather risks requires forecasts representing dependence between variables. CLARA (Calibrated Advection-Routing Attention) learns...
arXiv:2607. 05100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven models now rival numerical weather prediction in the medium range, but extending them to sub-seasonal lead times raises challenges absent at shorter horizons.
Data-driven models now rival numerical weather prediction in the medium range, but extending them to sub-seasonal lead times raises challenges absent at shorter horizons. Errors accumulate over long autoregressive rollouts, systematic biases grow with lead time, and several years of data must be held out for independent verification, even though machine-learning models otherwise benefit from longer training records.
The note updates the Attention ResUNet hourly precipitation postprocessor, replacing 192 month‑ and lead‑specific models with a single season‑conditioned model using Feature‑wise Linear Modulation. Lead time is extended to 72 h and two new input channels—local solar hour and a monthly‑varying precipitation climatology—are added. Verification shows a modest, consistent improvement in Brier Skill Score and reliability compared to the previous training.
arXiv:2603. 12828v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper addresses a missing capability in infrastructure resilience: turning fast, global AI weather forecasts into asset-scale, actionable risk intelligence.