{"id":23123,"date":"2026-05-18T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/trump-cuts-to-weather-data-could-make-forecasts-less-reliable-warn-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:37:15","slug":"trump-cuts-to-weather-data-could-make-forecasts-less-reliable-warn-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/trump-cuts-to-weather-data-could-make-forecasts-less-reliable-warn-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it\u2019s trained with ample data, experts say<\/p>\n<p>As the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government\u2019s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models\">late last year launched<\/a> a suite of artificial intelligence-powered global weather forecast models which it said would improve \u201cspeed, efficiency, and accuracy\u201d. In March, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/noaa-official-says-ai-will-overhaul-future-of-weather-forecasting-76baca60\">agency official said<\/a> those models are being trained with centuries of weather data.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/18\/trump-cuts-ai-weather-prediction-forecasts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2445be40575ff2f0236aa36f0f8b697decae86ac\/80_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e3fdf3daea973f1ad4bfe3ec8788cd2\" title=\"Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts\" \/>Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it\u2019s trained with ample data, experts say<br \/>\nAs the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government\u2019s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.<br \/>\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) late last year launched a suite of artificial intelligence-powered global weather forecast models which it said would improve \u201cspeed, efficiency, and accuracy\u201d. In March, an agency official said those models are being trained with centuries of weather data. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it\u2019s trained with ample data, experts say As the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government\u2019s weather forecasts less reliable when &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/trump-cuts-to-weather-data-could-make-forecasts-less-reliable-warn-experts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}