Learn how to visualize AI weather and create your own forecast for the holidays
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” … Will you see snow when you open your eyes on Christmas day? You could of course just open the weather app on your phone and check the forecast.
But as a true AI enthusiast, you can use a pretrained AI weather model to create your own global weather prediction.
The AI weather forecast is so lightweight that you can easily run it in the free versions of Google Colab, Lightning Studio, or even on your laptop.
You can start directly from my published notebook to save you some typing.
Create the AI weather forecast
We will use the European weather service ECMWF’s package ai-models to create the AI weather forecast. It has all the tools we need:
- Download pretrained AI weather models
- Download recent open weather forecast initialization data
- Perform the forecast
Copy my notebook, or open a notebook in a cloud environment or on your laptop. If you have a GPU available, make sure your current runtime is connected to it — that will speed things up.