World’s most powerful supercomputer for weather, climate-change forecast to be built in UK

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Most likely by 2022, the main computer will provide accurate warnings about bad weather and help protect you from the effects of increasingly severe storms, floods, and snow. Microsoft and the Met Office have teamed up to build the world's most powerful computer and weather forecaster.

Most likely by 2022, the main computer will provide accurate warnings about bad weather and help protect you from the effects of severe storms, floods and snow in the UK, the Met Office said.
"Working with [Microsoft], we will provide the highest quality weather and weather data and the most accurate forecasts that make decisions allow people to stay safe and prosperous," Met Office official Penny Endersby said, according to the report. "This will be a unique skill that will keep not only the Met Office but the UK at the forefront of environmental modeling and computer efficiency."

In February 2020, the UK government had announced a £ 1.2 billion (approximately, 12,400 crore) grant to upgrade this giant computer, which is expected to be one of the world's 25 best players.

The computer device, which will also be used to improve climate change modeling, will be able to significantly improve forecasts and risk-based planning, and provide more accurate forecasts of air and temperature data for the aviation industry, the Met Office said. .

In addition, this device will improve emergency preparedness for local storms, heavy rain and floods with advanced local weather forecasts using the most advanced simulations, he adds.

Supercomputers are widely used to accurately predict the weather and predict climate change. Japan's Fujitsu Laboratories used the world's most powerful computer, Fugaku, to create an AI model to predict tsunami floods.

Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is developing a state-of-the-art computer, which will be installed at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in the U.S., to help study things like climate change, and bad weather.