Researchers have developed a lightweight climate emulator called LUCIE that can accurately simulate long-term climate conditions.LUCIE is fully data-driven and can be trained on as little as 2 years of 6-hourly ERA5 data.The emulator remains stable and physically consistent for 100 years with 100 ensemble members.LUCIE's simulations match the long-term climatology and variability of temperature, wind, precipitation, and humidity observed in ERA5 data.