This cold drop has undoubtedly been the most devastating of this century, with more than a hundred dead and dozens missing, in addition to the total destruction of houses and entire towns. This DANA (Isolated Depression at High Levels) is affecting the entire Spanish territory, mainly in the eastern area, causing the AEMET, State Meteorological Agency, has activated the red alert and orange alert in different communities.
This natural catastrophe has not yet ended, and therefore there are orders to restriction of mobility, in addition to the request to be especially careful during the trips that Spanish programmers have during this All Saints’ Day long weekend. In fact, if you plan to go to Valencia, you should take these routes into account to know which is the safest to take.
Social networks are being crucial to provide testimonies and show the harsh reality of the consequences of this tragedy, in the same way that it is also contributing a lot in terms of helping the victims, offering all kinds of services and ways to collect money, food and supplies for these people.
But it is not the only way in which technology serves to help, and this platform called Flood Hub owned by Google is a great tool for this case and to prevent further damage or even save your life. This is because it works a bit like a kind of Google Maps to warn about floods up to a week in advance taking advantage of the advantages of Artificial Intelligence.
This is because they use two AI models for this, on the one hand there is the hydraulic model that uses meteorological data to predict when a river will floodwhile the Flood model predicts which areas will be affected and how far the water will reach. The key to combining these models is that their predictions are a week in advance, which allows you to prepare for the possible disaster.
The truth is that this app is relatively new and for now so It only covers 80 countries and rivers that affect about 400 million people. Although it works in Spain, unfortunately does not yet operate in the Valencia area, although we can trust that they will add it soon.
Furthermore, due to climate change, unfortunately these DANAs and floods are going to multiply in the coming years, so tools like Flood Hub are going to be increasingly necessary.
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