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Q: Are computers used in weather forecasting?
NOAA forecasters have increased the likelihood of an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season to 60 percent.
NOAA has recently upgraded its weather supercomputing system that the scientific agency relies on to model and forecast American weather.
The upgrades improve computing power that should improve weather forecast models and other weather analysis tools.
The expansion will enable the supercomputers to handle 29 quadrillion calculations per second and is hoped to improve their ability to create complex forecast models.