Vision for an integrated early warning foundation model. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57640-w AI can assist early warning systems that predict impacts of extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy rainfall. The year 2024 once again clearly showed that Europe is especially vulnerable to climate change, and in a number of different ways. Southeast Europe experienced several particularly severe heat waves in 2024, inclu