I just came across an interesting article from MIT’s Technology Review entitled, “Personalized Weather Forecasts: An IBM supercomputer forecasts weather down to a one-kilometer resolution“. This article talked about a new weather service called Deep Thunder developed by IBM that can predict the rain, the wind, and temperature conditions down to a one-kilometer resolution. This article goes on discuss how this breakthrough technology enabled government, private and public sector to accurately forecast the weather in every 30 minutes, thus enhance the operations and save huge money.

I really impressed about this particular research done by IBM. The above picture shown is one snapshot of an animated display in Miami with predictions at 30-minute intervals. In fact, this is a service developed by IBM’s alphaWorks. I wonder when IBM would launch this service to the commercial sector, how the pricing this service would be in the market, and most important, when will it be available especially in some emerging countries such as Asia, Latin America, and etc?

Kudos to IBM.