Oct 29, at the 2026 Fengyun Satellite Users Conference the first batch of
Fengyun satellite extreme-weather AI models was released, moving applications
from nowcasting toward short-term forecasting. The typhoon cloud-interpretation
model fuses Fengyun multi-channel cloud imagery and ancillary satellite products
to automatically analyze typhoon position, structure, intensity and evolution
and to generate interpretive text. It covers seven typhoon features, integrates
more than 20 satellite products, runs every 15 minutes and produces text in 27
seconds. A separate strong-convection short-lead warning model uses two hours of
continuous Fengyun-4 observations with AI to forecast up to four hours ahead by
decomposing cloud evolution into large-system translation and local system
growth/decay.
