Between rain and snow, machine learning finds nine precipitation types

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Oct 7, 2025, 12:24 pm120 ptsTrending
In research that could improve weather forecasting and winter driving safety, a University of Michigan-led study distinguished nine distinct precipitation types—varieties of rain, snow and mixed-phase (e.g., sleet)—using unsupervised machine learning and nearly a decade's worth of high-speed camera data.…

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