DeepMind's WeatherNext AI predicts hurricanes a day earlier than existing models, successfully forecasting Jamaica's Category 5 Hurricane Melissa five days before landfall using lower-resolution data researchers don't fully understand.

DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else

In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with 80 percent confidence that the storm system would hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane.Hurricane Melissa was catastrophic, causing flooding and landslide...