China unveiled a new generation of AI models for its Fengyun meteorological-satellite system on October 29 at the 2026 FENGYUN Satellite User Conference in Changsha, aimed at improving typhoon and extreme-weather warnings, the Global Times reported.
The first batch includes a typhoon cloud-image interpretation model and a severe-convection nowcasting and warning model, both combining Fengyun satellite data with AI algorithms to boost monitoring and early warning.
The typhoon model integrates multi-channel Fengyun imagery and related products to automatically analyze a storm's location, structure, intensity and trend, uses more than 20 real-time satellite products, runs every 15 minutes and generates an analysis in 27 seconds; the severe-convection model extends warning lead time to four hours.
CMA officials said the Fengyun system is helping expand China's MAZU intelligent meteorological early-warning system overseas, now reaching 141 countries and regions, while providing data to some 2,700 users from over 100 countries or regions.
Source: Global Times / China Meteorological Administration (paraphrased and translated from Chinese and international media; reprinted for informational purposes with attribution).
