Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext Cyclones code and weights after NHC use
Google DeepMind released WeatherNext Cyclones after National Hurricane Center forecasters used its guidance during the 2025 season, allowing independent scrutiny of the model's claimed one-day accuracy gain.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Google DeepMind
Why it matters
Researchers can now test Google's claimed one-day cyclone forecasting gain against storms and regions outside its published benchmarks, while examining a model whose guidance NHC forecasters used in real operations.
Six Google DeepMind researchers - Ferran Alet, Tom R. Andersson, Ilan Price, Stratis Markou, Andrew El-Kadi and Dominic Masters - are listed as equal-contribution lead authors on the Nature paper describing WeatherNext Cyclones. Google DeepMind released the model's code and weights on August 6th, 2026, after forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center used its guidance during the 2025 hurricane season.…
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