Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. Advances so far don’t eliminate the need for traditional weather modelsGoogle released a research paper today, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, on how its tropical cyclone model works. Weather Lab’s interactive website lets people see how AI models compare to the ECMWF’s physics-based models. Animation showing the Google model’s prediction for Cyclone Alfred when it was a Category 3 cyclone in the Coral Sea.