Dr. Tamitha Skov discusses Propagation Prediction Capabilities, now and in the future.
(Letting us all in on the "dirty little secret" that, our current so-called propagation forecasts / predictions are similar to using historical climatology ---- saying the weather on this day last year, or averaging the weather on this day, for the last few years, tells us what the weather will be like today.)
As well as the possible use of WSPR, and RBN, etc. to help in "now-casting" of the Ionosphere.