NOAA teams up with Zignal Labs to advance storm weather reporting with AI-powered intelligence

NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and National Weather Service (NWS), are partnering through a cooperative research and development agreement, (CRADA), with Zignal Labs on a project to explore how real-time, publicly-available data can improve the precision and timeliness of NOAA’s storm event reporting.

Over the next six months, NOAA and Zignal Labs will conduct a pilot project to assess how Zignal’s artificial intelligence-powered capabilities can be used to augment NOAA’s storm reporting. NOAA and Zignal will explore how this storm-related data could potentially be added to NOAA’s Storm Events Database, the official system of record for NWS storm reports and the nation’s authoritative archive of significant weather events.