The British Hurricane Authority has begun using a pioneering artificial intelligence tool that helps detect hurricanes quickly. This innovation is expected to contribute to improving the accuracy of forecasts and reducing losses resulting from hurricanes.
This tool can distinguish between wind patterns that will develop into hurricanes and normal winds.
The British Hurricane Authority began using this new tool for the first time, as the Atlantic hurricane season entered a more active phase.
A report by the Independent newspaper stated that this tool works to track early signs of hurricane formation in tropical easterly waves, which produce the majority of Atlantic storms.
Through the tool, meteorologists will be able to see which depressions may be heading towards the warm waters of the ocean, which is the ideal location for hurricanes to form.
Before this tool, the Meteorological Authority used mechanisms to track waves through satellite images, but they were delayed.
Emergency management agencies hope that this tool will give them more time to prepare before major hurricanes strike, to try to limit losses caused by this natural phenomenon.
Researchers began using this tool a few months ago, and warned that its impact during this busy hurricane season would not be certain.
They pointed out that climate change caused by human activities has increased the speed, strength, and frequency of hurricanes, and that record ocean temperatures are charging storms with energy as they rush toward the Atlantic.
Meteorologists expect that this year will witness five or six hurricanes.
