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Hourly forecasts at up to 5-kilometer resolution against WeatherNext 2's 25-kilometer six-hour grid, roughly five times sharper, with Google claiming up to 50% more accurate precipitation forecasts a day or more out. Google cites Brightband's independent Operational WeatherBench evaluation placing it ahead of Microsoft, NVIDIA and ECMWF deep learning models as well as National Weather Service forecasts. Reachable through the Maps Platform Weather API and Earth Engine, not research-only. Google
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