# How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa's historic landfall in Jamaica

DevFeed: [How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa's historic landfall in Jamaica](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-weathernext-helped-the-national-hurricane-center-better-predict-hurricane-melissa-s-historic-landfall-in-jamaica-6186.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://deepmind.google/blog/how-weathernext-helped-the-national-hurricane-center-better-predict-hurricane-melissas-historic-landfall-in-jamaica/>)

Author: WeatherNext team

Published: 2026-05-16T03:14:17Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Google DeepMind News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/google-deepmind-news.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [learn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learn.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/science.md>)

## AI overview

WeatherNext, described as an AI model, helped forecasters provide communities with more time to prepare for Hurricane Melissa's historic landfall in Jamaica.

## Source excerpt

Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.