{"slug": "google-s-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly", "title": "Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data", "summary": "Google Research and DeepMind released WeatherNext 3, a weather model that learns directly from real-time satellite data instead of traditional physics simulations, producing hourly forecasts at up to five-kilometer resolution—five times more detailed than its predecessor. Google says regions in Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific that have lacked accurate forecasts should see the biggest gains.", "body_md": "# Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data\n\nBy Jonathan KemperSource: \n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com)\n        Google Research and [DeepMind](/glossary/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. Google says regions in Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific that have lacked accurate forecasts should see the biggest gains.\n\nThe article [Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data](https://the-decoder.com/googles-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly-from-live-satellite-data/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/googles-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-tooa", "published_at": "2026-09-06 10:36:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 02:07:42.583930+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["Google Research", "DeepMind", "WeatherNext 3"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-s-weathernext-3-ditches-physics-simulations-and-learns-weather-directly.jsonld"}}