The Independent emphasizes the crucial role of quality journalism during vital societal changes, including topics like reproductive rights and climate change. They highlight their commitment to unbiased reporting, free from paywalls, enabling accessible information for all. The piece details the Met Office's upgrade to a new supercomputer, Azure, promising improved accuracy in 14-day weather forecasts, bringing them close to current 7-day forecasting standards. This advancement aims to enhance predictions of extreme weather events and support global climate research.
People ask how a bigger computer improves the weather forecast. One big thing this new computer will allow us to do in the near future is to be able to produce 14-day forecasts with a similar kind of accuracy than we can today for seven, eight, nine days.
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