Wake of the flooding

In the wake of the disaster which unfolded in which Hong Kong was partially flooded from a heavy torrent of rain for which was unpredicted.

This damage caused the city more than USD $136 million in damages all across the board. Which prided the Hong Kong Observatory to search for a solution which allowed predictions to a higher accuracy.

What went wrong?

While the John Lee celebrated, the initial passing of storm on October 2023, what the Hong Kong Observatory wasn’t able to predict was the which came after.

The fallacy came from the inability to predict future events due to long forecasts, due to a trough of low pressure caused by Typhoon Haikui. Even HKO offered warnings to its citizens, it wasn’t enough to predict.

While the infrastructure wasn’t able to handled the amount of flooding dealt to the city. Experts highly agreed citizens could’ve been evacuated and cars could’ve been moved, in order to reduce the spot with better weather forecasts.

Our Predictive Models

Despite, historical models predicting that the low depression caused by wasn’t going to be an as big of an effect. What we found using our latest model that the following rainstorm was going to cause an average of 600mm of rainfall over the city during that period of time with a prediction of 85% accuracy.

This increase in accuracy prompted through the increase of data from IoT devices all across the board resulting ever higher increasing amounts of accuracy from all parts of the city.

What we found was that using data from sensors collected throughout the city, we were able to predict the amount rainfall which was going to happen <100mm of rainfall, allowing evacuation orders to be placed if such information had gotten to the public intime.

Collaboration with HKO

Ever since the night of the TerraLogic has since collaborated with the chairman of HKO in increasing Hong Kong’s resilience in the weatherfront.

Terralogic has since synced data across the board with sensors from 30 meterological stations station across the entirety of the city.

This has allowed Hong Kong’s weather report’s accuracy to increase with an accuracy of 20% in both temperature, wind speed across the board. Greatly improving the citizens’ knowledge of the city’s board.