Why the Road to Weather Safety is Paved with Agentic AI

With forecasts more accurate than ever, the real challenge — and solution — lies in intelligent, personalized warning delivery

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“Risks are being created and accumulating faster than our ability to anticipate, manage and reduce them, and when those risks are realized as shocks or disasters, they bring increasingly dire consequences for people, livelihoods, society and the ecosystems on which we depend.”

— Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, mid-term review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, May 2023.

We often hear about the latest advancements in weather forecasting – satellite imagery, supercomputers, sophisticated models. Yet, as recent tragedies remind us, even the most accurate predictions are useless if the message doesn't reach the right people in the right way at the right time.

This is the persistent "last mile" problem in weather intelligence.

A recent study from the Hi…