For decades, improving the accuracy of track forecasts for dangerous hurricanes like Isaias plodded along at a slow and steady pace. Improvement in intensity forecasting was even slower.

Google DeepMind is a winner of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating WeatherNext Cyclones, a highly accurate AI weather model that gives forecasters an extra day of warning. Can a single AI model accurately forecast both the track and intensity of tropical cyclones?

Hurricane Isaias surged into Category 3 on Friday, a remarkable increase in strength for a storm that only became a hurricane on Wednesday night. The phenomenon of a storm growing

Hurricane Isaias is heading toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. It could become the first hurricane to hit the United States since Milton in 2024.

Artificial intelligence now produces excellent weather forecasts on a broad scale. But several factors complicate its ability to predict how fast a hurricane will ramp up.

Aircraft crews fly through hurricanes and release dropsondes to measure winds, pressure, moisture and other conditions that satellites cannot fully capture

Hurricane Isaias is forecast to make landfall along the Gulf Coast, but when was the last landfalling hurricane?

The system had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph late Tuesday and was moving east at 5 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters expected it to become Tropical Storm Isaias and then potentially the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, but it had not yet received the Isaias name in the advisory available early Wednesday.

Hurricane Isaias path made landfall in Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 with 105 mph winds. See damage, aftermath photos.