4. They can predict the weather
Does weather forecasting sound suspiciously like fortune-telling, where someone looks into a crystal ball and predicts the future? Well, rest assured that meteorologists depend on something much more reliable than a crystal ball to make weather predictions. All around the world, supercomputers are hard at work processing real-time weather data, monitoring temperature, humidity, wind speed and cloud cover around the world to find weather patterns.
Making sense of all this information for a weather forecast is practically impossible for the human mind, or it could take so long that one might as well look out the window for an answer. For a supercomputer, however, it’s all in a day’s work; maybe less. The next time you get a storm warning and reach for your umbrella, remember that you have a supercomputer to thank for keeping you dry.