Hi! We significantly improved the current state of the art quality of nowcasting (rain detection and prediction up to 2 hours) based on satellite images and run it as a service.

We use meteoradar data, satellite images, and weather predictions to feed an unet-based neural network. For now, our service covers almost all Eurasia continent. The whole world will be covered soon!

Video: https://youtu.be/9zd3VR-prYU

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09932

Service: https://yandex.com/weather/nowcast