Tropical cyclones could be predicted with an extra day’s warning, thanks to an AI model

Tropical cyclones — also called typhoons or hurricanes, depending on where they occur — are a major cause of deaths worldwide, and inflict considerable damage on property and infrastructure. The formation and evolution of these rapidly rotating weather systems are driven by effects on a range of scales, which makes it incredibly challenging to forecast them accurately using conventional models. Now, writing in Nature, Alet et al.1 introduce WeatherNext Cyclones (WN-C), an artificial-intelligence model that can produce two-week forecasts of unfolding tropical cyclones.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02643-w

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