The embedded video is a relevant but unpolished example. In a real post, I’d spend time creating a quality video or working with design to create one.
Met AI: Your friendly neighborhood meteorologist
FIO launched Met AI today. It’s a free, browser-based product that does two primary things:
It rewrites forecast discussions from NWS meteorologists so they’re easier to understand.
It provides a chat interface tuned for responding to weather related questions.
The forecast discussions NWS meteorologists write are full of useful, nuanced information. They often break down forecasts by microclimate, and provide a level of detail you don’t get in the average weather app. These discussions are rarely read by the general public though. Met AI solves this by providing a cleaner UI to present the discussion, but it also rewrites the content so that it’s clearer and more concise. It removes jargon as needed, and defines it when it’s required. If there’s something unclear in the rewritten version, this is where the chat interface comes in.
The chat interface uses a vector database full of weather and climate information. It can answer simple questions like “What is orographic lift?”, define acronyms like CAPE, or even explain the impacts of past hurricanes. You can kind of think of it as friendly meteorologist that lives next door.