And we work with suppliers to ensure we buy net zero compute, but for weather modellers the equation does look rather different: physical modelling is so energy consumptive that AI/ML has the potential to be lower energy to train and far lower to run. Providing always it can be made trustworthy

Two good points might take two tweets. We won’t make anything operational unless it’s been validated to the same standard as our traditional methods, and we are already finding that we need broader validation techniques: the traditional ones don’t cover all the aspects 1/2

Make the best of today

Euphuism and euphemism are different. Happy to refer 12 C either to my mediaeval historian husband: I’m a physicist as we’ve just established

Seismology would be plausible for Iceland. Whatever it is, it’s evidently quite well quantified

Oh and Reading now have a bsky account. They didn’t last time I looked

Good chance of frost at higher levels on Dartmoor, more on Wednesday and Thursday. Even the odd snow shower possible!

This is the western side of Dartmoor nearer to Tavistock but yes

I picked up a couple of bootfuls crossing streams on the west moor today

It’s only compared with average there not an absolute value (which I don’t know before you ask me!)

I like the last one. Very little shop of horrors