# Google DeepMind — How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa’s historic landfall in Jamaica

- Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
- Announced: 2026-05-16T03:14:17+00:00
- Subject: Gemini
- Models affected: WeatherNext
- Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/how-weathernext-helped-the-national-hurricane-center-better-predict-hurricane-melissas-historic-landfall-in-jamaica/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1232-how-weathernext-helped-the-national-hurricane-center-better-predict-hurricane

The WeatherNext AI model helped the National Hurricane Center predict Hurricane Melissa's landfall, giving communities more preparation time.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://deepmind.google/blog/how-weathernext-helped-the-national-hurricane-center-better-predict-hurricane-melissas-historic-landfall-in-jamaica/:

> Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.

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