Skip to content If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard. A satellite image of Erin shortly after becoming a Category 5 hurricane on Saturday. Credit: NOAA In early June, shortly after the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, Google unveiled a new model designed specifically to forecast the tracks and intensity of tropical cyclones. Part of the Google DeepMind suite of AI-based weather research models, the "Weather Lab" model for cyclones was a bit...