Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
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Google’s WeatherNext 3 AI model delivers hourly forecasts on a 5-km grid, ingesting live satellite imagery and sparse station data. The system provides higher-resolution temperature, moisture, wind-speed and humidity predictions, including 100-meter turbine-height wind estimates. It improves precipitation accuracy by up to 60% compared with its predecessor, outperforming other deep-learning models and national weather services.
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How it was reported
- TechCrunch·Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
WeatherNext 3, a Google DeepMind and Google Research AI model, provides hourly forecasts at 5 km resolution and improves rain prediction by 60% versus its predecessor. Tested on Operational WeatherBench, it surpasses deep-learning models from Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, ECMWF and forecasts from the US National Weather Service and ECMWF. The 2.4-times larger model ingests real-time satellite data and targets ground stations, delivering finer, faster predictions for Google products and cloud users.
- The Verge·Google says its AI weather model is getting better
Google has launched WeatherNext 3, an AI-driven weather model that delivers forecasts at five times higher resolution than its predecessor by ingesting real-time observations. The system claims unprecedented accuracy for rain and snowfall predictions, extending beyond the data typically used by global AI weather models.
- Engadget·Google's new AI weather model uses live satellite data for higher-resolution forecasts
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 AI model delivers hourly forecasts on a 5-km grid, using live satellite imagery and sparse station data to produce detailed temperature, moisture, wind-speed and humidity predictions, including 100-meter turbine-height wind estimates. It improves precipitation accuracy by up to 50 percent, especially in historically unreliable regions, and powers Google Search, Gemini, Maps, the Maps Weather API and Earth Engine.
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