Not everyone may be a fan of the Bureau of Meteorology’s website refit, but it doesn’t have to be the only way to check your weather. Between an assortment of apps found across both ecosystems, there are also websites that might be able to help out, and some of them even use AI.
One of the more recent ones even uses AI in a way aimed to show off just how artificial intelligence is helping meteorologists and scientists alike work out what’s to come.
Rather than simply waiting for a storm to hit, Google’s “Weather Lab” tool is an interesting new website built in a way where it will allow you to almost become your own weather person, seeing how AI models work tracking storms.
The system includes a few weather models, but most notably, one Google calls “WeatherNext 3” which uses real-time data from systems such as satellites to track events and produce hourly forecasts.
The result is an interactive rain- and storm-tracking system that shows patterns from all across the world, working to provide faster forecasting down to 5 kilometres, compared with the 25km and six hours seen previously.
Google’s focus with WeatherNext 3 and Weather Lab is largely on rain and tropical storms, including hurricanes, but it can cater for temperature tracking, as well.
As to just where this information goes, while Google’s Weather Lab system is one such place, so too are built-in forecasts inside other Google apps, including Gemini’s AI systems and Google Search. It means that the next time you ask either search or AI for the weather, there’s a good chance that the AI models used for Weather Lab will also be giving you the same information, albeit in a more digestible format.
