Weather is never out of the news. From an extreme and later than normal hurricane season in the US to record-breaking cold snaps in China and Korea all within the space of a few weeks, it’s fairly obvious that we should care about forecasting. Especially as we’re likely to get more extreme weather in the future. This week, we take a look at how experts and tech companies are developing up-to-the-minute solutions to predicting our weather woes.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

Today's stories: 

• What is nowcasting? An outline from the UK Met Office: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/data/nowcasting-datasheet_2019.pdf
• Microsoft DeepMC: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/micro-climate-predictions-enabling-hyper-local-decisions-for-agriculture-and-renewables/
• HPE accelerates its offer to the weather forecasting arena: https://community.hpe.com/t5/servers-systems-the-right/advance-weather-prediction-with-a-breakthrough-supercomputer-at/ba-p/7178940#.Y_eQFXbP0Q8
• Record for communicating via a brain implant set at 62 words per minute: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/24/1067226/an-als-patient-set-a-record-for-communicating-via-a-brain-implant-62-words-per-minute/
• 3D scanning using a home router: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00250.pdf

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