Super computer forecast weather price of 30 million pounds

Capable of forecasting the intensity and path of the storm four days before it was formed, it was the superior power of a 30 million-pound supercomputer - the Hydrometeorology's "treasure". You (Met), have just been revealed.

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This IBM-branded computer can perform 100,000 billion calculations per second to analyze the weather situation in millions of locations around the world, thereby making predictions.

UK's super-computer weather forecast.(Source: telegraph.co.uk)

For the historic storm, dubbed "St. Jude's Day" - patron saint in the most desperate situations, swept across southern England, supercomputers soon pointed to two extreme weather regions. in Canada and the United States. These two regions of the weather then converged to the western Atlantic Ocean to form a large depression before turning into a storm due to the unusually hot air in England.

On the basis of analyzing millions of information collected from observation stations, satellites, airplanes, boats . across the globe, Met's supercomputer can map most of the phenomena. The above weather with the fastest processing speed.

Supercomputers are housed in a special building with a total area larger than two football fields, and using a power source with a capacity of 1.2MW enough to power a small town.

Met Dan Williams spokesperson affirmed that supercomputing accuracy could help make forecasting more and more close to unusual weather developments to be ready to cope and reduce damage.

However, the Met is implementing a plan to equip a much more modern supercomputer, worth about £ 100 million, over the next two years.