Nowcasting, the short-term prediction of weather, is essential for making timely and weather-dependent decisions.
Precipitation nowcasting aims to predict precipitation at a local level within a 6-hour time frame.
A novel model called SpaT-SparK, which combines self-supervised learning with spatial-temporal learning, has been developed for precipitation nowcasting.
SpaT-SparK outperforms existing baseline supervised models, providing more accurate nowcasting predictions.