Google just turned the atmosphere into a live API. > until now, Google’s AI weather model forecast the planet in 25km blocks and six-hour jumps. > that’s a huge blind spot when a storm can form, split, and change direction inside that window. > but now WeatherNext 3 plugs directly into live satellite observations, rebuilds the global forecast every hour, and sharpens surface conditions down to 5km. (it’s like upgrading from a blurry weather map that refreshes four times a day to a near-live…

Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMindSep 3

WeatherNext 3 is a major breakthrough in how we forecast global weather. ⛅ Developed with @GoogleResearch, the model learns directly from real-world, real-time observations to give more localized highly accurate predictions faster. 🧵