Weather has always been so dominant in man's life that almost all cultures worshipped weather gods. In Central America alone,
0 weather gods
were known: Chaac, Coatrisquie, Cocijo, Ehecatl, Guabancex, Guatauva, Huracán, Juracán, K'awiil, Q'uq'umatz, Kukulkan, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc, Tohil, Tupã, Yopaat.
That's
0
times all Christian gods.
That's
1.4
times all Greek gods on Olympus.
Extreme weather events caused over
0
casualties in the past 20 years.
That's
5.3
times the people killed in German traffic in the same period.
That's
4.8
times the number of casualties in the Bosnian war.
Extreme weather events caused over over
0 Billion US$
economic damages in the past 20 years.
That's
2.4
times the GDP of India in 2005.
That's
0
times the GDP of Haiti in 2020.
World Bank expects up to
0
climate refugees by 2050, who will have to find new homes because of global warming.
That's
2.6
times the global number of refugees in 2020.
That's
3
times the projected population of Germany in 2050.
Earth's atmosphere contains about
0
molecules, which pretty much do what they please.
That's
0
times the number of stars in the universe.
That's
0
times the age of the universe in seconds.
To predict just the weather in Europe, around
0
observations must be processed. Every day!
That's
0
times the number of observations a person could read in a day (assuming 10 per minute).
A garden-variety weather-related machine learning problem deals with about
0
input variables for one single sample.
That's
0
times the input variables in a machine learning app that can distinguish a cat from a dog.
The fastest supercomputer in the world performs
0 operations/sec
at peak performance
That's
0
times the Saturn V Apollo Guidance Computer.
That's
0
times a Pentium 4 Processor, 3.2 GHz.
That's
0
times an Xbox Scorpio GPU.
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts more than
0 MB
of weather data stored.
That's
0
times free iCloud storage (as of 2021).
That's
0
times the capacity of a regular computer hard drive.
Degrees of freedom are a measure for the complexity of statistics. Our high-resolution prediction model has almost
0
DoF in a single simulation.
That's
0
times the degrees of freedom a person could update manually in one day (assuming 5 per minute).