I think there is potential in this approach, but I don't think we have the training data yet. We have 100+ years of storm tracks, but we don't have 100+ years of surface observations at the mesonet granularity (like, every city has a reliable weather station). We only measure the upper atmosphere from a few points twice a day. I think that the "chaos" and "butterfly effect" type influences can be controlled, but probably not without really granular surface data, including over the ocean.
So while GPUs are ready to crunch the numbers, we don't actually have the numbers yet.
So while GPUs are ready to crunch the numbers, we don't actually have the numbers yet.