Today seems like an especially fitting day to discuss artificial intelligence and weather forecasting.

So let's take the series of storms coming into Southern California this week as an example:  the forecast has changed a lot over the last few days about how much and when it was going to rain.

But new research out suggests that AI-machines are far more accurate ... and quicker ... in forecasting the weather.

Google's AI-powered weather modeling just blew human meteorologists and old government weather models out of the water....

Aaron Hill is a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma ... who has been studying machine learning and weather forecasting.