Alan O'Reilly

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The Big Tech Show · Blame it on the weatherman? Alan O'Reilly (Carlow Weather) on the technology of forecasting · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

But yeah, so the RME weather model is another high resolution weather model.

So exactly all of that.

So the weather model takes in all of the details that they know about the weather before that model starts its run, before it starts.

So it takes all the satellite data, all the data from airplanes, from ships, from weather stations.

Yeah, airplanes.

And that was a big thing during COVID that a lot of that data was missing.

And people like me that follow the weather models on discussion forums and that, we were wondering how were the weather models going to handle the fact that they were missing all of the data?

Because you think about planes fly across the Atlantic.

and they fly at different levels.

They're given, they're recording live data of, you know, really interesting and really useful weather data.

And the same with all the ships that are out to sea.

So all of that, along with obviously the EU METSAT, like the new satellites are also massively helping.

So this is evolving and it's improving.

But all of that weather data gets fed into a start point.

And the weather model basically says, right, this is, we know, this is the atmosphere as we see it.

This is where the low is.

This is where the high is.

etc.

And then it has an algorithm, physics, that basically says, right, how can we predict what's going to happen with that?

And, you know, like when we had the very fine spell of high pressure, it's pretty easy.

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