From Babylon to Google: a history of weather forecasting

AI has taken the place of astrology as humans have worked through the millennia for knowledge of when it will rain

• Google uses AI to try to improve two-hour rain forecasts

Recent scientific breakthroughs allowing forecasters to better predict the weather are just the latest in a long line of meteorology developments.

Google's artificial intelligence (AI) arm DeepMind has developed a system allowing forecasters to predict the chance of rain within the next couple of hours with much higher precision.