Comment by ewheeler

here's an explanation of their 'computer vision approach' to local weather forecasts: https://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/

"We create a 3-channel image where the red channel represents velocity in the x-direction, the blue channel represents velocity in the y-direction, and the green channel represents change in storm intensity" and then use computer vision techniques to predict what happens next

post was written after a discussion here on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3187326