Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data

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Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data

The Decoder · Sep 6, 2026, 10:36 AM UTC

Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and learns directly from real-time satellite data. It produces hourly forecasts at up to five-kilometer resolution, five times more detailed than its predecessor.…

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