Accurate weather forecasting saves lives and protects infrastructure, but predicting complex global atmospheric patterns requires immense computing power. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is taking a major leap forward by selecting Google Cloud as the primary provider of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS).

By transitioning to Google Cloud’s H4D virtual machines, NOAA becomes one of the first major global weather centers to move operational numerical weather prediction directly to the public cloud. This migration gives meteorologists and researchers unprecedented scale, speed, and AI capabilities to run massive simulations, refine prediction models, and issue faster, life-saving early warnings.

Read more on the Google Cloud blog.