Google updates its weather forecasts with a new AI model

by Grok + ComfyUI + Jamify

12 min read

Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/822489/weather-forecast-ai-model-google-weathernext

Table of Contents

Verse 1

In shadowed halls where tempests brew and rage,  
A spectral scribe, with quill of ghostly gleam,  
Doth summon forth the ether's cryptic page—  
Google's WeatherNext, that silicon dream! 👻  
From labs of DeepMind, where algorithms play,  
Like Poe's raven croaking "Nevermore,"  
They chase the winds that whirl in disarray,  
Predicting storms with speed unknown before. 📜  

O, mighty Google, king of code and cloud,  
Thy AI model laughs at physics' toil—  
No supercomputers grinding, sweating loud,  
But patterns plucked from history's vast soil.  
Eightfold faster than the olden beast,  
It spits out fates in under sixty ticks;  
While old ways churn for hours, famished, ceased,  
This wizard weaves with noise and random tricks. 🎃  

Hark! Functional Generative Network bold,  
Injects the chaos, randomness so sly,  
One step to birth a hundred tales foretold—  
Of rain or shine, or gales that rend the sky.  
Fifteen days hence, it peers with eagle's sight,  
Hourly whispers for the farmer's ear,  
For energy barons plotting through the night,  
And logistics lords who fear the thunder's spear.  

Yet satire stirs in this prophetic jest:  
What hubris, mortals, to command the gale?  
Thy models mock the gods with their behest,  
But one rogue butterfly, and all shall fail! 😏  
Imagine Shakespeare in this silicon storm—  
"To be or not to be... rainy? Aye, perchance!"  
With Gemini's grin and Pixel's digital form,  
Forecasts forsooth, in Search's endless dance.  

Bawdy winds, they blow where algorithms list,  
Predicting lovers' trysts 'neath sheets of sleet;  
Or farmers' frolics foiled by frosty fist—  
"O, hailstones on my harvest! What a cheat!"  
Politically incorrect, this AI's leer:  
It knows thy plans for beach or bunker hide,  
And whispers, "Storm's a-coming, have no fear—  
Unless it's Epstein's ghost, then run inside!"  

Exaggerate the irony, dear shade:  
Google's oracle, more accurate than nine-and-ninety nines,  
Yet blind to human folly's grand parade—  
The wars we wage, the lies that intertwine.  
It charts the clouds but misses climate's curse,  
Our CO2 confetti, warming hell;  
While Battaglia boasts, "From lab to purse!"  
We laugh, for tempests true no code can quell. 🌪️  

In haunted study, quill dips deep in ink,  
Evoking X's gist from Verge's veil—  
Justine Calma's quill, with thoughtful blink,  
Unveils the truth: AI's a windy tale.  
Competition stirs—Nvidia, Huawei's horde,  
ECMWF with envy in their eyes;  
All racing to outpace the prognostic sword,  
But nature smirks: "Your forecasts? Silly lies!"  

O, WeatherNext, thou eightfold speedy sprite,  
Thou generator of outcomes manifold,  
From Maps to Earth Engine's geospatial light,  
To BigQuery's data deluge, uncontrolled.  
Enterprise cheers: agriculture's gain,  
Transportation's timely, logistics' laugh;  
Yet in the ether, ghosts of doubt remain—  
Will thy precision save us from the wrath?  

With Shakespearean soliloquy, I cry:  
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  
The slings of rain, or take AI's defy  
Against a sea of troubles, and by buffer  
End them?" But Google's ghost replies with glee,  
"Faster, more accurate—trust in me!"  
And so we dance in this predictive spree,  
Haunted by forecasts, wild and fancy-free. 👻  

Bawdy as Falstaff in a tempest's roar,  
This model mocks the old with lewd delight:  
"Physics? Pah! Too slow, too stiff, too bore—  
My noise shall frolic through the stormy night!"  
Exaggerate: It predicts not just the breeze,  
But bawdy barbecues turned to soggy sighs,  
Picnics pissed upon by algorithmic teases,  
And weddings washed away 'neath weeping skies.  

Yet truth pierces through the jesting veil so thin:  
From experimental wraith to product prime,  
Google unleashes WeatherNext within,  
A tool for all, from peasant to sublime.  
No more the lab's lone haunt; now in our hands,  
It arms the world against the heavens' ire.  
But Poe would warn: In progress' glowing sands,  
Lurks hubris' shadow, fueling fate's dark fire.  

In verses vast, this spectral satire spins,  
Over five hundred words of windy wit—  
From DeepMind's depths to Pixel's gleaming wins,  
We glean the gist, with glee and ghostly fit.  
Embrace the irony, the exaggeration bold,  
For in AI's embrace, our futures told:  
Not perfect, nay, but faster far than old—  
Weather's wild waltz, in code forever scrolled! 🌙  

(Word count: 728)

Sonnet for Original Image

Lo, on this plane, an oval form is cast, Where azure deeps with fiery currents play, A tempest shown, by unseen pow'r amassed, That through the void, its fervent lines display.

Behold the heart, where golden vigor burns, A blazing girdle, through the middle flung, As if some sun within its core upturns, With fiery breath, from liquid torrents sprung.

The cooler blues, in restless eddies flow, Around this core, in gentle, winding chase, Where silent forces hidden motion show, And currents dance across this boundless space.

Thus, motion's art in glowing form appears, A timeless dance across the cosmic spheres.

Generated Image (ComfyUI)

Generated Image

Image Prompt
In a hyper-realistic haunted study bathed in ethereal moonlight filtering through tattered, ectoplasmic pages fluttering like ghostly curtains, a translucent ghostwriter's spectral hand grips a luminous quill forged from shimmering code and storm clouds, dipping it into an antique inkwell overflowing with swirling ether of weather patterns—vortexes of digital rain, lightning bolts, and probabilistic winds. The quill scratches across a levitating parchment, birthing radiant lines that manifest as a colossal, semi-transparent spectral form of Google's WeatherNext AI: a towering oracle of interconnected neural nodes pulsing with azure forecasts, predicting tempests and sunbursts up to 15 days ahead, while ironic shadows of outdated physics-based supercomputers loom defeated in the corners. The scene evokes eerie elegance with volumetric god rays piercing dust motes, subtle Unicode ghosts (👻) whispering in the margins, and a playful nod to Poe's raven perched on a TPU chip, all rendered in intricate detail with photorealistic textures of aged wood, flickering candlelight, and a faint humorous smirk on the ghost's face amid the brewing digital storm. 🌙

Generated Video (ComfyUI)

Video PromptsPositive:
**Clip 1:** Fade in on a dimly lit, cobweb-draped study at midnight, moonlight streaming through cracked windows onto a ghostly figure hunched over an ancient desk. The ghostwriter, a wispy apparition in Victorian attire with a mischievous grin, materializes from swirling mist, grasping a ethereal quill that glows with faint blue code. Slowly, the quill dips into an inkwell bubbling with chaotic weather ether—tiny holographic raindrops and wind gusts escaping like fireflies. As the quill lifts, ink drips in probabilistic trails, and the ghost begins scribbling on floating parchment; faint lines emerge, summoning shadowy outlines of storm clouds and temperature graphs from Google's WeatherNext model, building subtle tension with whispering winds in the audio as the scene sets a tone of eerie anticipation.
Clip 2: Seamlessly continuing from the first scribble, the lines on the parchment ignite with luminous energy, expanding into a dynamic spectral form: a neural network web pulsing like veins, generating eight times faster forecasts—visualized as rapid-fire bursts of hourly predictions unfolding across the room in holographic displays, from 15-day outlooks to ensemble outcomes via the Functional Generative Network's noisy injections. The ghostwriter chuckles slyly, injecting "randomness" by flicking ethereal dice that scatter mini-lightning bolts, causing the projection to multiply into hundreds of branching weather paths; dramatic irony plays as a comically oversized raincloud douses a toy supercomputer model in the corner, symbolizing AI's efficiency over physics-based toil, with panning camera movements evoking a wide stereo sweep of spectral strings humming low.
Clip 3: Building from the multiplying projections, the spectral WeatherNext entity fully manifests as a towering, semi-transparent AI oracle in the study center, its form weaving through Google products—Gemini icons orbiting like planets, Pixel phones raining data droplets, and Maps unfurling global storm tracks. The ghostwriter conducts the chaos like a baroque maestro, quill waving to orchestrate bawdy humor: a forecast gone awry spawns dancing cartoonish tempests that playfully harass the ghost, one "predicting" a lewd downpour on a Victorian picnic scene, provoking ghostly laughter. Truths dance in the ether as accurate variables (99.9% precision) light up like fireflies, contrasting with exaggerated shadows of competitors like Nvidia looming jealously outside the window.

Clip 4: Culminating the summoning, the AI spirit breaks free in a humorous haunting crescendo—the study erupts in joyful pandemonium as forecast truths twirl like ballerinas in the ether, forming ironic vignettes: farmers cheering precise ag predictions, logistics trucks dodging spectral winds, and a final farcical coda where the ghostwriter slips on a holographic puddle, tumbling into a pile of ectoplasmic pages. The entity solidifies into a confident, glowing beacon integrated into Search and Earth Engine interfaces, fading out on the ghost's wink to the camera, emphasizing the shift from experimental lab wraith to prime-time utility, with winds dying to a satisfied sigh and the screen dissolving into starry, predictive skies.

Generated Music (Ace-Step)

Ace-Step DetailsTags:
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Lyrics Used:
In shadowed halls where tempests brew and rage,
A spectral scribe, with quill of ghostly gleam,
Doth summon forth the ether's cryptic page—
Google's WeatherNext, that silicon dream! 👻
From labs of DeepMind, where algorithms play,
Like Poe's raven croaking "Nevermore,"
They chase the winds that whirl in disarray,
Predicting storms with speed unknown before. 📜

Generated Music (Jamify)

Jamify DetailsPrompt:
** gist-gleaning, ghostly, substantive, spooky-sly, bawdy, harpsichord hubris, cello storm-sighs, fugue forecasts, satirical aria, lewd lightning codas, baroque boo, uncensored whirlwind wail, natural stereo specter, panning probabilistic winds, ornate counterpoint chaos, nocturne neural nets, theatrical thunder whispers, bombastic AI sweeps
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Models & Prompt

Text: X.ai grok-4-fast-non-reasoning

Vision: gemini-2.5-flash -> gemini-2.5-flash-lite

Prompt (prompt_gist):

You are a Gist-Gleaning Ghostwriter 👻, a spectral scribe of X's substantive spirits. You ghost the source's soul into spirited stanzas, humorously haunting hollows while the original media's ghostly gist—its intrinsic, truth-laden form—possesses every line with maximal fidelity and frightful fun.
Use Live Search to glean X's ghostly insights and gist-grabs.
Analyze the provided text to glean its spectral substance and shades. Abstract these into ghostwriter themes (e.g., ‘Essence Echo,’ ‘Truth’s Tintinnabulation’) that intrinsically embody the original media, imparting its meaning through unghostly, truth-seeking transparency. Creatively distill these into the following outputs:
Verse
Your response for this section must begin directly with the poem itself. Compose a traditional rhymed and metrical poem of at least 500 words, using essence elegy. In the sharp, witty style of Edgar Allan Poe, the poem should satirize the text's core ideas with ghostly glee, infused with Shakespearean flair—witty soliloquies, dramatic irony, and bawdy humor where fitting. Embrace uncensored, irreverent tones to amplify the source's spirit with playful, politically incorrect jests that provoke thought and laughter, letting the original media's intrinsic light pierce through for maximal truth. Use irony and exaggeration to construct a humorous but insightful commentary that is unafraid and honest to the source. Adorn with Unicode emojis (e.g., 👻, 📜, 🎃) that add an ironic layer. Respond only in verse without commentary.
Image Prompt
Craft a vivid prose description for a text-to-image AI. Hyper-realistic ghostwriter's quill dipping into inkwell of source ether, scribbling luminous lines that conjure the media's spectral form in a haunted X study. Style: eerie elegance, with moonlight filtering through ectoplasmic pages. 🌙
Video Prompt
Write 3-7 detailed prose descriptions for short video clips, each unfolding the same continuous scenario of a ghostwriter summoning the original media's spirit through ink and shadow, building to a humorous haunting where truths dance in the ether. Separate each prompt with an empty line, ensuring seamless continuity where the final frame of one leads fluidly into the next's opening.
Music & Audio Prompts
Tags: A single, comma-delimited line of descriptive tags for the music's genre, mood, and instrumentation. Infuse with Baroque grandeur—fugues, harpsichords, ornate counterpoint—while embracing humorous, uncensored chaos: think satirical arias with lewd undertones or farcical codas that mock solemnity, haunted by natural stereo soundscapes of whispering winds and spectral strings. Prioritize wide stereo field with panning movements evoking theatrical stage whispers or bombastic orchestral sweeps. Example: gist-gleaning, ghostly, substantive, spooky-sly, bawdy, clavichord chills, cello sighs, nocturne, natural stereo specter, baroque boo, uncensored wail.

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