Europe Is back on the map. It´s going slow but steady. Hope they involve community in their tech projects.

jandrewrogers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Europe is widely acknowledged as having arguably the best global weather systems. This isn't new. There are only a handful of organizations world-wide maintaining global weather models.

The US government, uniquely, maintains two independent global weather models. Neither is as good as the European model. Arguments have been made for combining the US budgets to produce a best-in-class weather model but politics makes that unlikely to happen.

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NoiseBert69 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Europe was always great in weather/earth observation from space.

Their stuff basically works 24/7/365 without causing much noise. With fully automated data intake processes.

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Archelaos 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Europe has always been #1 in weather forecast.

	▲	Archelaos 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The downvotes seem to indicate that the HN community is less informed and more prejudiced than I expected. For some background information: here is a Scientific American article from 2015 on the topic: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-europeans-bet... Quote: "Overall, the consensus among meteorologists and other scientists is that the European model is better overall in forecasting weather."