There's a company doing that. Here's an article: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/27/an-algorithm-that-can-predict-weather-a-year-in-advance/ http://www.fre

There's a company doing that. Here's an article: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/27/an-algorithm-that-can-predict-weather-a-year-in-advance/ http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/27/an-algorithm-that-can... “Only about 15% of what we do is traditional forecast meteorology,” says CEO Bill Kirk I once had a brief conversation with a meteorology student about this. The idea of learning a model from example data seemed foreign to him. It seemed to me that there could be things to improve by applying ML algorithms.