Russia’s Yandex launches machine learning weather forecast program

MOSCOW, Nov 27 (PRIME) -- Russian Internet giant Yandex has launched a machine learning-based technology for hyper-local and super-accurate weather forecasting, called Meteum, which is now the core technology for the updated Yandex.Weather online service and mobile application, the company said late Thursday.

Meteum collects a massive volume of data about past forecasts made by external providers like the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) or Foreca, and compares them with weather conditions of the past to figure out the difference between what was forecasted and what happened in reality, Yandex said.

The program then compiles a mathematical formula to correct and refine future forecasts. The mobile application is available for devices running on iOS and Android.

“Meteum calculates a new forecast each time a user consults Yandex.Weather. It locates a person and shows them a fresh forecast for precisely that spot. The user can choose another place and time for the forecast to see what the weather will be like around their office in an hour or whether it might rain when they go out of town in the evening,” the statement read.

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