Weather AI's press coverage has accumulated into something close to a canonical narrative: the technology that strains power grids and water supplies might also be the technology that sharpens hurricane predictions [10], guards against floods , and gives meteorologists a new precision they have never had before . The World Meteorological Organization has formalized this framing by bringing private sector AI partners into its forecasting infrastructure . The story is not fabricated — the capabilities are real and the research is substantial . But a redemption arc requires that the…