News Summary

• Hurricane forecasters are increasingly using artificial intelligence to make predictions.
• When the first hurricane of the Atlantic season formed this month, an AI model beat out traditional models at predicting where it would go.
• The National Hurricane Center first started incorporating the Google DeepMind model into its official forecasts last year.
• By the end of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, it was already one of the best at predicting a storm's path and strength, says Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher for the University of Miami.