Modernizing the skies: NOAA and Google Cloud collaborate to advance weather forecasting

NOAA and Google Cloud are collaborating to modernize weather forecasting by transitioning NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) to Google Cloud's high-performance computing infrastructure. This move will provide faster, more reliable, and scalable computing power for numerical weather prediction. The partnership is a result of long-term collaboration between NOAA and Google Cloud, and will enable meteorologists and researchers to quickly adapt to future modeling innovations. This is a significant milestone in the transition to cloud-first infrastructure for one of the first operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) centers globally. The move will position the United States to lead global weather modeling.