> Google has a local nowcast model that uses raw observations, in production, but that's a different genre of forecasting than the medium-range models of Aardva

> Google has a local nowcast model that uses raw observations, in production, but that's a different genre of forecasting than the medium-range models of Aardvark. It's very clear from the MetNet announcement blog[1] that they require HRRR or other NWP output at runtime. [1]: https://research.google/blog/metnet-3-a-state-of-the-art-neural-weather-model-available-in-google-products/ https://research.google/blog/metnet-3-a-state-of-the-art-neu...