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U.S. taps supercomputer to help predict dangerous flooding

The new tool will let forecasters target potentially life and property threatening downpours street by street, giving people more time to get out of harms way.

By Brian K. Sullivan | Updated on August 16, 2016
David Key boats away from his flooded home after reviewing the damage in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and returned today to assess the damage. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

(Bloomberg) – In a week when heavy rains in Louisiana led to eight deaths and forced more than 20,000 people from their homes, the U.S. said it can now tap a supercomputer to better forecast flood events across all of the nation’s waterways.

The new tool will let forecasters target potentially life and property threatening downpours street by street, giving people more time to get out of harm’s way or prepare for the worst if they can’t, said Thomas Graziano, director of NOAA’s Office of Water Prediction.

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