Big Data and Weather Forecasting

Rakshatha.G (R20CA684)
Spoorthi.S(R20CA704)
Sai Jahnavi S (R20CA690)
AGENDA
Introduction
Weather Forecasting
Big Data And Weather Forecasting
Role of Big Data Analytics
IBM – Deep Thunder
INTRODUCTION
• Big data is a term used to define a massive amount of data on a large scale, from
several resources like media and public data, sensors data, warehouse data, etc.
 
• To bring this data into action and information, analysis of data is required and
therefore big data analytics steps come out, we can deploy three main characteristics
Volume, Velocity, and Variation to analyze large sets of data in order to ensure accurate
information with the help of big data analytics tools.

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 WEATHER FORECASTING

• Weather forecasting is an application of science and advanced technology that is used to

predict the atmospheric condition for an upcoming point of time and a given location. 
• Our day to day life is directly or indirectly depends on the weather in terms of economy and
environment, it affects us with various factors as events, timing, duration, location, etc.
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 BIG DATA AND WEATHER FORECASTING

• Big data analytics will give better results in

weather forecasting and will help forecasters to
forecast weather more accurately.
• Several big data techniques and technologies
have been suggested to manage and analyze
the huge volume of weather data from
different resources.
• By employing big data analytics in weather
forecasting, the challenges related to
traditional data management techniques and
technology can be solved.

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ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN WEATHER-BASED
APPLICATIONS
• The forecast is required to determine when to
1. Agriculture plant, irrigate and harvest crops on time.
 
• Weather forecasting also indicates the knocking
floods, and it is suggested to harvest the crop
timely even if only a 60% crop is matured.
Similarly, an indication of initiation of rainy
season helps farmers to sow crops timely.
 
• The presence of fungal pathogens in wind also
are shown in weather predictions in order to
treat a crop by managing pests and fertilizers
use. 
 
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ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN WEATHER-BASED
APPLICATIONS
2. Sports
• W​​eather prediction has its own roles in sports, there are many applications that tell
us where to play, within how many days, what could be the best time, what will be the
current climate of the place where the game is going to organize, etc provided in the what
weather organization wants games.

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ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN WEATHER-BASED
APPLICATIONS
3. Forestry
• A proper prediction is required for preventing and controlling, and the safety of wildlife and
wildfires, circumstances of spreading the harmful insects can be predicted, etc. 

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ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN WEATHER-BASED
APPLICATIONS
• Many other organizations also depend on weather forecasting, they demand for accurate
weather predictions for their smooth functioning without any disrupt like airport control
management, construction work, utility companies are the places where weather predictions
are essential. 
• Along with these business events, weather predictions have an impactful effect in predicting
or estimating natural disasters like predicting floods, volcanos, thunderstorm, heavy
rainfalls, etc.
• We know that Big data analytics can contribute to plenty of information and insights about
disasters, this can be used to get daily climatic conditions and catastrophic events that give
warnings about tsunamis, hurricanes, etc.

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IBM’s Deep Thunder: Weather Predictions Application
• It is a famous application for weather forecasting powered by Big data, it gives a forecast
of the extremely specific location like a single city or single airport, local authorities get
the sign of dangers in real-time and manage their work accordingly. 

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 IBM’s Deep Thunder: Weather Predictions Application
• The project began in 1995 as an outgrowth from a project designed
to help provide accurate weather forecasts for the 
1996 Atlanta Olympics Games.
• It was installed at the National Weather Service office in, Georgia, in 1996, where it ran for
several months and produced multiple forecasts daily.
• The name Deep Thunder arose after the IBM Deep Blue system.

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IBM’s Deep Thunder: Weather Predictions Application
• Deep Thunder is intended to provide local, high-resolution weather predictions customized
to weather-sensitive specific business operations. 
• For example, it could be used to predict the wind velocity at an Olympic diving platform,
destructive thunderstorms.

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