Today, the Open Access article by Martin Schultz et.al. has been published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ A, theme issue “Machine learning for weather and climate modelling”. The paper discusses the question, whether it is possible to completely replace the current numerical weather models and data assimilation systems with deep learning approaches. It is available at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.0097.