As climate change intensifies rainfall variability and extreme weather events, urban flash floods are becoming a growing threat across East Africa’s rapidly expanding cities.

2022 JUL 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Investigators publish new report on Risk Management - Flood Risk Management. According to news reporting ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Prepare and Monitor." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Flood Forecasting for Transportation Resilience: A Guide ...

The amount of rain required to produce flash flooding varies by day, and by location. This is why - for example - an inch of rain in Manitou Springs can prompt a ...

A new model developed by a U of M researcher that blends artificial intelligence with more traditional forecasting techniques could bring flood forecasts to many parts of the state that lack them.

New research reveals that "foundation models" trained on vast, general time-series data may be able to forecast river flows ...

A flash flood is a flood that rises and falls quite rapidly with little or no advance warning, usually the result of intense rainfall over a relatively small area. 1 Most flash floods in the United ...

The fatal flooding this weekend in Central Texas was a tragedy. As of this writing, at least 80 are dead. After every such crisis, it’s important to assess how it occurred and identify ways to prevent ...

The National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University announced it installed two new mesonet stations near Hunt, Texas. The stations are located near Camp La Junta and M-Bar-M Ranch. This area ...

In mid-August, a sudden burst of heavy rain turned parts of Raleigh’s Capital Boulevard into a torrent. Several vehicles were submerged and motorists were put in danger as water rose faster than ...

The University of Texas at Arlington’s Water Engineering Research Center has been tapped to lead a reform in state forecasting protocols following the July flooding of Texas’ hill country that killed ...