Why can’t computers predict the weather far into the future?

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I guess I’m assuming.. Bare bones, everything out there has a scientific reason for acting the way it does. Wind, humidity, temperature, yadda yadda. What randomness is preventing us from entering all the values into a computer program, hitting fast foward, and seeing close to exactly how things will be far down the road?

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>What randomness is preventing us from entering all the values into a computer program, hitting fast foward, and seeing close to exactly how things will be far down the road?

This is what we already do. This issue is that weather systems are global events with cause and effect all over the world on both large and small scales, think the butterfly effect. So there are so many random variables that we don’t know how to track them all.

However, with stuff like AI and machine learning and all the data we’ve collected over the years our weather prediction models are getting better and better.

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