Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events? By Shruti Nath & Tim Palmer

Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events? More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies. By Shruti Nath & Tim Palmer https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00842-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=d133f27161-nature-briefing-daily-20260319&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50432164 Improvements in weather forecasting rank high among science’s success stories of the twentieth century1. Back in the 1970s, there were four tropical cyclones that killed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, whereas today these storms rarely cause more than a few dozen deaths.