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Anyone who’s been caught in an unexpected downpour knows that weather forecasting is an imperfect science. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology are taking aim at one of meteorologists’ biggest blind spots: extremely short-term forecasts, or nowcasts, that predict what will happen in a given location over the next few minutes.
Westwood and surrounding municipalities will begin preparing studies this fall to help figure out ways to stop chronic flooding that plagues the area.
Yet another deluge is headed for the state.
As California is pummeled by a string of atmospheric rivers, efforts to capture and treat stormwater face many hurdles.
An alarming number of people (especially children) have drowned after disappearing into storm drains during floods. The deadly problem should be easy for federal, state and local government agencies to fix, but tragedy strikes again and again.