NOAA seeks to improve weather forecasting through cloud migration
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ByChristian Robles,
Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
October 23, 2026 02:36 PM ET
The agency’s administrator said his biggest challenge is data deletion as he touted the benefits of moving to the cloud.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is in the middle of moving multiple systems to cloud-based technologies to improve weather forecasting.
NOAA operates two physical supercomputers for the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, or WCOSS. The agency uses the system to generate weather models used across NOAA offices and shared with the general public.
The two supercomputers are serviceable for about five years, but NOAA is now “pushing the limits” of what physical infrastructure can handle, David Michaud, director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction Central Operations, told Nextgov/FCW.
To move information off of the supercomputers to NOAA’s 122 local weather...
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