Context: Microsoft and UK's Met Office have teamed up to build the world’s most powerful supercomputer to forecast weather and climate-change.

• World’s most powerful weather, climate-change forecasting supercomputer to be built in UK.
• Likely to be operational in 2022, the supercomputer will provide accurate warnings on severe weather and help protect from impact of increasingly extreme storms, floods and snow.
• In February 2020, the UK government had announced funding of £1.2 billion (about ₹12,400 crore) to develop this supercomputer, which is expected to be one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world.
• The device will enhance emergency preparedness to local storms, heavy rain and flooding through improved forecasting of local-scale weather using very high-resolution simulations.

Other Supercomputers developments:

• Supercomputers are being increasingly used for accurate weather and climate-change forecasting.
• Japan’s Fujitsu Laboratories used the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Fugaku, to develop an AI model to predict tsunami flooding.
• Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is developing a supercomputer, which will be installed at NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Centre in the U.S., to help study phenomena such as climate change, and severe weather.

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