Predicting a hurricane’s impact with big data
A research team prepares weather models that will predict a storm’s impact on the electrical infrastructure.
A University of Michigan research team is crunching data on the fly to predict a storm’s impact on electrical infrastructure. Their models are part of a larger project that aims to predict the probability of power outages from a wide variety of events, including less severe but more frequent incidents like thunderstorms, heat waves and blizzards. Ultimately, Guikema envisions a rolling model, updated daily, that utility companies could use to allocate resources on a day-to-day basis.
If we’re successful in developing these methods…then we can help these utilities that are getting impacted by these events, restore power faster and more efficiently.
Seth Guikema
