🔬 Science Aug 8, 2026 · Victoria Turk, wired.com

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
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In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with 80 percent confidence that the storm system would hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane.
Hurricane Melissa was catastrophic, causing flooding and landslid

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