DeepMind podcast: AI weather models now aid Hurricane Melissa forecasts
PeterWBattaglia · x · 2026-09-10
Peter Battaglia, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, joins Hannah Fry's podcast to break down AI weather forecasting.
- Real-world impact: collaboration with the National Hurricane Center on early warnings for Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, plus renewable energy supply and agricultural forecasting
- Foundations: why weather is such a hard physics problem (the butterfly effect), traditional numerical models vs AI models, and probabilistic forecasting
- Models: covers GraphCast and WeatherNext 3, DeepMind's most advanced global weather AI model
- The 44-minute episode is available on Apple, Spotify and YouTube with timestamps
Related event: DeepMind Podcast: How WeatherNext 3 Predicts Category-5 Hurricanes(3 posts)→
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