Surely many of you have some tool related to being able to know the weather status of your city directly from your mobile. Normally we use third-party applications to be able to consult this information, but you should know that Google has just announced its own app that will alert us of possible flooding throughout the territory.
Luckily, Flood Hub (which is what this app is called) has been announced. for a total of 60 new countries including Spain on that listjoining in this way the 20 in which it already worked previously located in Europe, Central America, Africa and Asia Pacific, as Google itself has indicated through its official blog.
Flood Hub arrives in Spain and you will be able to enjoy it from your Xiaomi mobile
The most striking thing about this ad is that Flood Hub was relatively recently updated to include AI tools within itwhich are responsible for processing various sources of publicly accessible data, such as weather reports or satellite images in order to be able to provide a forecast of possible floods in a much more precise way.
In fact, the forecast of this type of event has been extended from the previous 48 hours to 7 daysa fairly important leap forward that comes thanks to two fundamental data collection points: a hydrological model, which predicts the volume of water carried by rivers, and a flood model, which calculates how high the waters can rise and how much Specific areas may be affected.
Another interesting element that Google has announced is that This tool will be directly integrated into the Search Engine and Google Mapsso accessing this information will be extremely easy regardless of the phone we use in our day to day.
For now, if we want to use this application, we will simply have to go to its official website and click on the area of the map on which we want to obtain information. As you can see, once we have selected the location, A lower menu will open with all the necessary information.
We will have a forecast for hours and for the following days, different colors depending on the flood risk level of the area and even other interesting data such as the warning level or danger level, so we will be able to be informed at all times and even share that information with our contacts.
Source | google blog
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