How we're supporting better tropical cyclone prediction with AI

We’re launching Weather Lab, featuring our experimental cyclone predictions, and we’re partnering with the U.S. National Hurricane Center to support their forecasts and warnings this cyclone season.

Tropical cyclones are extremely dangerous, endangering lives and devastating communities in their wake. And in the past 50 years, they’ve caused $1.4 trillion in economic losses.

These vast, rotating storms, also known as hurricanes or typhoons, form over warm ocean waters — fueled by heat, moisture and convection. They are very sensitive to even small differences in atmospheric conditions, making them notoriously difficult to forecast accurately. Yet, improving the accuracy of cyclone predictions can help protect communities through more effective disaster preparedness and earlier evacuations.

Today, Google DeepMind and Google Research are launching Weather Lab, an interactive website for sharing our artificial intelligence (AI) weather models. Weather Lab features our latest experimental AI-based tropical cyclone model, based on stochastic ...