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With Tropical Storm Fiona heading to Puerto Rico, scientists in the United States are working to better prepare residents for catastrophic flooding with some new technology.

"FloodNet" is a new online tool that allows people to view flood data in real time across the city.

Some 500 flooding sensors are expected to be installed over the next five years.

To view the online tool, <a href="https://dataviz.floodnet.nyc/">click here</a>.&nbsp;

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Just Alan knows if we got some rain headed our way for this first day of December. Yeah, not a lot, but enough that it's going to cause a little bit of an inconvenience there for the evening commute. Take a look at the exact timing here, hour by hour. You're going to notice that the odds go up after three o'clock. So for that evening commute, 456, you're going to see some of these showers could be that little bit of a steadier burst here 6 to 7 p.m. and then it tails off by nine o'clock. We're pretty much done with the rain. That's good. But then for the weekend, maybe not the best looking weekend, but salvaging Saturday, Saturday, how about 60? I'm pushing up the high because I have a feeling we're going to get a couple of peaks of sunshine and that's going to allow the temperatures to soar enjoy tomorrow outside while you can because the rain returns on Sunday, it will also be cooler. It'll be a little bit on the dreary side. So let's take a look at that Sunday future cast because Saturday, I don't have much to show you because it's going to be dry. It's going to be a mix of sun and clouds for Sunday. However sure it starts off dry at about 7 a.m. But we're going to notice showers moving in from the south and west by the afternoon. Here we go by 11 a.m. Brunch plans move them inside because there will already be showers. This looks to be a little bit steadier of a rain compared to today's rain. Notice already some of the yellows on the feature cast around two o'clock. Then later on into the afternoon, even some orange, around 4 to 5 o'clock, there's a pocket of moderate to maybe heavy rain. That's possible that's going to move quickly through. So by the evening hours things start tapering off and Monday morning, we might have a lingering shower or two. But aside from that, we're pretty much smooth sailing, aside from today's showers and Sunday showers, I have that yellow highlight just so that, you know, that Sunday looks to be a little bit messy, messy Sunday, but Saturday is beautiful. Ok. I guess we got to take what we can get, salvage a little bit of the, it's better than the teens.

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What's going on inside there, who need to know? All right, but what's going on in the weather department? We have rain. I mean, there, office parties tonight, right? So you will want the umbrellas heading out and about for evening plans. Best chance is going to be during the evening commute between three and eight. You can see pretty much how a lot of us start to see the rain after three or four. Best chance is going to be around six or seven. So you'll have to tap those windshield wipers a little bit, but it quickly ramps off by eight or nine o'clock. We're more or less dry and the rest of the evening looks fine. It just got to have the umbrellas for the early part of the evening, but it's not the only time we're going to see rain this weekend. A little bit of a break expected tomorrow and honestly go outside. Enjoy 60 degrees because we might not see 60 degrees any more in 2023. That's right because of course, things are going to be cooling on down. Enjoy tomorrow because it'll start to rain again on Sunday. It'll also be quite a bit cooler, only lower fifties. So let's take a look at that future cast for Sunday starts off dry. So heading over to let's say church in the morning, you're fine. But by about 11 a.m. we will see a couple of showers moving on in. So by brunch time, you will want to move those brunch and lunch plans inside, it'll become a little bit of a heavier rain into the afternoon. Notice some of the oranges right there over park slope as well as Gowanus down towards Bath Beach. We are going to see quite a bit of rain for the afternoon hours. It's a quick hit though by seven or eight to on Sunday evening, we're pretty much clearing out of the rain and then into Monday morning, maybe a lingering shower is expected. So let's take a look at that 10 day forecast. What you're going to see is again a little bit of a temperature roller coaster up to 60 tomorrow. Then we have that yellow highlight. That means rain is looking likely and it could be a little bit more significant. A little bit left over Monday. Then it gets a lot colder. Take a look by middle of next week. We're looking at middle twenties.

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New technology could improve NYC response, preparedness for future floods

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well, hurricane season is in full swing as tropical storm Fiona heads for Puerto rico Darryl's gonna have an update on that coming up later on in the show. But here at home. Scientists are working to better prepare residents for future storms and they're doing so with a new technology called Flood net. It's a new online tool that allows people to view flood data from around the city in real time. The new stools, Faith Graham joins us right now from the alert center to explain what this new tool is. Faith. Yes, Well, it's some pretty interesting technology released right in time for hurricane season now, what it is, a system of sensors placed in flood prone locations around the city and people are able to view the sensors in real time on their computers or smartphones to check flooding in those areas. Now the goal they say, is to allow new Yorkers and government agencies to know when, where and how quickly flood waters are rising now so far 30th them have been installed around the five boroughs with more than 10 of them located over in Brooklyn and here in the Bronx we have three of them. We're gonna take a look at the data right here on flood net as you can see this is the Bronx and there's three of them. They're marked by these small icons here. Now what happens is all you have to do is click one of them, it will tell you the location as you can see. We have one on the corner of Home Street and intervale Avenue. We have another, This one is over on southern bullet and an additional one is over here on Sheridan boulevard. As you can see they're showing areas that are prone to flooding in the Bronx and when you click on them you could explore the data. Now these were installed back in february. They were just released though and all of this is showing the data for flooding in this area over the course of a certain period of time. And what you can do is you can click on a day, a week, two weeks, a month or a year here if we click all time, what it will do, it'll it'll pull up the data and as you can see as far back as february, when you click on each peak along this graph, it'll show you how many inches of rain we had in that location on that specific date. Now this is a collaboration between the city N Y U. And the city University of new york and they released it originally back on september 1st but they officially demoed the project today. Now the best part they say they plan on installing 500 more sensors over the next five years. Now to take a look for yourself, you can head on over to our website news 12 dot com and visit numbers and links hurt

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