Google’s new AI-powered model promises weather update every hour using satellite
Last Updated: 2026-09-04 12:34:04
Google is now using the power of AI to help give you faster and accurate weather updates. Google’s DeepMind and Research divisions have rolled out WeatherNext 3, which is a new artificial intelligence-powered weather forecasting model for localised weather predictions.
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Google's WeatherNext 3 offers hourly AI weather updates.- New AI model provides localized weather predictions.
- It uses satellite data for accurate, 5 km resolution.
The company says the model is its most advanced global weather forecasting system to date, capable of generating forecasts every hour using real-time satellite observations.
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Google says WeatherNext 3 directly incorporates live satellite imagery and weather station data. This approach allows the model to respond more quickly to rapidly changing weather conditions and reduce forecasting delays that often occur in conventional systems
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Google said the new model can produce forecasts at resolutions as high as 5 kilometers, which is a big improvement and upgrade over the WeatherNext 2 version that was only able to forecast in a range of up to 25-kilometer grid.
The company claims the enhanced resolution provides a far more detailed view of local weather conditions, including temperature, humidity and precipitation patterns
Do people get to try out the new weather AI model for their own daily prediction and updates? Google says it plans to integrate WeatherNext 3 across several of its products which includes market-serving apps like Search, Maps and Gemini. The company is also making the AI weather technology available through its cloud services and developer platforms.
Google feels that having access to new and improved forecasts could benefit sectors such as agriculture, renewable energy, transportation and even disaster preparedness to some extent. Incidents like the recent Nepal floods can easily become available with such datasets.
Google has been upgrading its own feature set with weather well in focus. The earthquake alert tool is one of the recent additions. It also offers a feature to limit people with motion sickness while they use the screens inside the car. These tools are available for the Pixel phone users and are expected to get a wider rollout in the near future.