Tag: WeatherNext
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NHC Leaned on DeepMind AI to Forecast Hurricane Isaias
Lead — Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, at 8:30 p.m. CDT on October 9, 2026, as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph (169 km/h) winds. What made the storm notable beyond the Gulf Coast was how its forecast was made: for the first time in a US landfall threat, National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasters […]
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Google Open-Sources WeatherNext: Cyclone Forecasts Gain a Day
On August 6, 2026, Google DeepMind released the code and model weights for its WeatherNext forecasting family on GitHub, alongside a Nature paper reporting that its cyclone model gives forecasters roughly an extra day of warning on tropical storm track, intensity, and size. The release covers three variants — WeatherNext Cyclones, the general-purpose WeatherNext 2, […]