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Paper#Climate Science / Machine Learning for Weather Forecasting🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Jan 3, 2026 09:23

Machine Learning Improves Rainfall Forecasts in East Africa

Published:Dec 31, 2025 00:16
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This paper addresses the critical need for improved weather forecasting in East Africa, where limited computational resources hinder the use of ensemble forecasting. The authors propose a cost-effective, high-resolution machine learning model (cGAN) that can run on laptops, making it accessible to meteorological services with limited infrastructure. This is significant because it directly addresses a practical problem with real-world consequences, potentially improving societal resilience to weather events.
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“Compared to existing state-of-the-art AI models, our system offers higher spatial resolution. It is cheap to train/run and requires no additional post-processing.”

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Paper#Weather Forecasting, Multimodal Learning, Natural Language Processing🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Jan 3, 2026 20:18

LangPrecip: Language-Guided Precipitation Forecasting

Published:Dec 26, 2025 12:06
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This paper introduces LangPrecip, a novel approach to precipitation nowcasting that leverages textual descriptions of weather events to improve forecast accuracy. The use of language as a semantic constraint is a key innovation, addressing the limitations of existing visual-only methods. The paper's contribution lies in its multimodal framework, the introduction of a new dataset (LangPrecip-160k), and the demonstrated performance improvements over existing state-of-the-art methods, particularly in predicting heavy rainfall.
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“Experiments on Swedish and MRMS datasets show consistent improvements over state-of-the-art methods, achieving over 60 % and 19% gains in heavy-rainfall CSI at an 80-minute lead time.”

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