Clever computing for better wind forecasts
Weather forecasting is a number-crunching affair: under the watchful eyes of meteorologists, data from weather stations around Ireland get digested by massively powerful computers and are mixed with global models to work out the future probabilities of cloud, rain, wind and occasionally even sunny weather in locations around the country. But forecasting something as variable as wind is tricky - particularly if you want to predict windiness at a specific location, like a wind farm.
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