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Tropical cyclones could be predicted with an extra day’s warning, thanks to an AI model
Tom Beucler is in the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and the Expertise Center for Climate Extremes at the University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
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Milton Gomez is in the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and the Expertise Center for Climate Extremes at the University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.
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Tropical cyclones — also called typhoons or hurricanes, depending on where they occur — are a major cause of deaths worldwide, and inflict considerable damage on property and infrastructure. The formation and evolution of these rapidly rotating weather systems are driven by effects on a range of scales, which makes it incredibly challenging to forecast them accurately using conventional models. Now, writing in Nature, Alet et al.1 introduce WeatherNext Cyclones (WN-C), an artificial-intelligence model that can produce two-week forecasts of unfolding tropical cyclones.
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Alet, F. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10953-2 (2026).
Mooney, K. R. et al. Earth Space Sci. 13, e2025EA004869 (2026).