> ..since NOAA only supplies forecasts for 16 days out, Google now has to make sophisticated guesses using a giant database of historical wind and weather data.

> ..since NOAA only supplies forecasts for 16 days out, Google now has to make sophisticated guesses using a giant database of historical wind and weather data. It would be interesting if, as a side-effect of Project Loom, Google ended up becoming the world's leading weather forecaster.