Europe is widely acknowledged as having arguably the best global weather systems. This isn't new. There are only a handful of organizations world-wide maintaining global weather models.

The US government, uniquely, maintains two independent global weather models. Neither is as good as the European model. Arguments have been made for combining the US budgets to produce a best-in-class weather model but politics makes that unlikely to happen.

Europe was always great in weather/earth observation from space.

Their stuff basically works 24/7/365 without causing much noise. With fully automated data intake processes.

Europe has always been #1 in weather forecast.