AI just changed everything about how we forecast the weather

# AI Just Got Much Better at Predicting Hurricanes—Here's Why That Matters Google's new AI weather model predicted Hurricane Melissa would intensify into a catastrophic Category 5 storm five days before traditional weather forecasts even agreed it was a threat, giving Jamaica crucial extra time to warn residents and prepare. The prediction turned out to be exactly right, and this kind of early warning could mean the difference between life and death in future hurricanes. AI is now beating human meteorologists at one of the hardest prediction problems in weather forecasting.