MeteorPred: A Meteorological Multimodal Large Model and Dataset for Severe Weather Event Prediction

TL;DR

This paper introduces MP-Bench, a large-scale multimodal dataset and a specialized large model for predicting severe weather events, addressing data scarcity and multimodal processing challenges in meteorology.

Contribution

It presents the first extensive multimodal dataset for severe weather prediction and a novel large model capable of processing 4D meteorological data with adaptive fusion modules.

Findings

MMLM achieves strong performance on severe weather prediction tasks.

MP-Bench dataset covers diverse severe weather scenarios.

The model effectively captures spatiotemporal dependencies in meteorological data.

Abstract

Timely and accurate forecasts of severe weather events are essential for early warning and for constraining downstream analysis and decision-making. Since severe weather events prediction still depends on subjective, time-consuming expert interpretation, end-to-end "AI weather station" systems are emerging but face three major challenges: (1) scarcity of severe weather event samples; (2) imperfect alignment between high-dimensional meteorological data and textual warnings; (3) current multimodal language models cannot effectively process high-dimensional meteorological inputs or capture their complex spatiotemporal dependencies. To address these challenges, we introduce MP-Bench, the first large-scale multimodal dataset for severe weather events prediction, comprising 421,363 pairs of raw multi-year meteorological data and corresponding text caption, covering a wide range of severe weather scenarios. On top of this dataset, we develop a Meteorology Multimodal Large Model (MMLM) that directly ingests 4D meteorological inputs. In addition, it is designed to accommodate the unique characteristics of 4D meteorological data flow, incorporating three plug-and-play adaptive fusion modules that enable dynamic feature extraction and integration across temporal sequences, vertical pressure layers, and spatial dimensions. Extensive experiments on MP-Bench show that MMLM achieves strong performance across multiple tasks, demonstrating effective severe weather understanding and representing a key step toward automated, AI-driven severe weather events forecasting systems. Our source code and dataset will be made publicly available.