DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
WeatherNext gave forecasters about one extra day of warning and made an 80% confident Category 5 Jamaica call five days ahead, researchers said.
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A new artificial intelligence model developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research was able to expand in about a day the advance of tropical cyclone predictions, such as hurricanes and typhoons. The technology can increase the time available for evacuations, preparation of emergency teams and protection of infrastructure in regions threatened by storms. Baptized by WeatherNext, the system is able to perform predictions three days in advance wi…
Google’s new AI could give hurricane forecasters an extra day of warning
Days before Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica in October 2025, it was still just a Category 1 storm. But inside the National Hurricane Center, forecasters were watching something unusual. Model after model, including a new artificial intelligence system from Google DeepMind, arrived at the same alarming conclusion: this storm was about to explode into a Category 5 storm. It was a call the hurricane center had never had the confidence t…
Google Deepmind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time
Deepmind's new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in traditional weather forecasting. Code and model weights are open-source on GitHub. The article Google Deepmind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time appeared first on The Decoder.
Google DeepMind and Google Research specialists presented the innovative WeatherNext neural network, which outperforms existing peers by approximately a day in tropical storm forecasting accuracy. In other words, WeatherNext's three-day forecast is comparable in reliability to traditional two-day forecasts. The new network has already been field-tested by meteorological services, and its performance has exceeded the creators' wildest expectation…
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