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How to design an actually good flash flood alert system
Failing to translate flood forecasts into timely messages that tell people what they need to do to stay safe can have tragic consequences. In Texas and elsewhere, the solution is more wide-ranging than fixing any single channel of communication.
Rain and thunderstorm alerts bring flash flood threat
Most of the country was blanketed by yellow rain and thunderstorm warnings, with the Met Office saying this could bring flash flooding, power cuts and disruption to travel. But the flooding forecast for London and south-east England on Saturday morning did not occur.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state, penned a letter to President Trump with five recommendations for ...
Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade ...
A new era of meteorological monitoring is emerging as businesses seek more data on everything from heat waves to wildfires .
If you want an accurate flood forecast, you need to account for all these factors in one way or another. In traditional, physics-based flood forecasting, these factors are converted into complex ...
Discover how NASA's SWOT satellite revolutionizes flood forecasts by filling gaps in water data, enhancing protection for rural areas.
The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the ...
Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.
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