AGENTIC-SYSTEMSMay 16, 20261 min read6 views

How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa’s historic landfall in Jamaica

How the next-generation AI weather model WeatherNext assisted the National Hurricane Center in accurately predicting Hurricane Melissa's historic landfall, marking a milestone for AI in disaster mitigation.

Acknowledgements

We thank Ferran Alet, Tom Andersson, Ilan Price, Stratis Markou, Andrew El-Kadi , Dominic Masters, Amy Li, Samier Merchant, Natalie Williams, Gregory Thornton, Ken MacKay, Olivia Graham, Ben Gaiarin, Elinor Kruse, Akib Uddin, Juanita Bawagan, Armin Senoner, Devaja Shah, Jacklynn Stott, Remi Lam, Aaron Bell, Paul Komarek, Matthew Willson, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez and Peter Battaglia.

We also thank the teams at the National Hurricane Center, UK Met Office and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.

Finally, we thank Raia Hadsell, Zoubin Ghahramani, Yossi Matias, Demis Hassabis for their support of this work.

Source: Google DeepMind Blog

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