MIAMI — The Atlantic hurricane season, which draws to an official close on Sunday, fulfilled forecasts it would be an active year.

There were 13 named storms and three category 5 hurricanes. But, for the first time in a decade, a hurricane did not make landfall in the U.S.

The season's most destructive hurricane , Melissa, was one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever . It slammed Jamaica with 185 mph winds, devastating communities and killing dozens of people.

A week before the hurricane made landfall, however, forecast models disagreed on where it would go. One model that got it right — accurately predicting Melissa's path and its category 5 intensity — was a new one: Google's DeepMind AI-based hurricane model.

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