exmetman wrote:

I wonder if this will finally free-up all the real-time gauge data from
hundreds of sites across the country that the EA and the UKMO have access
to?

What's the point of these organisations squirreling away this data, when
some entrepreneur with a bit of vision, and who can put a team together
with the requisite skills in Hydrology, GIS and mobile software
development, can produce a flood alert system based on postcodes that
really works?


On the subject of flood alerts, I have tried several times to sign up for
flood alerts on the EA website as I have 2 streams running through my
grounds that feed the River Wey and according to their flood maps, large
parts of my grounds are at medium risk and some parts are at high risk of
flooding. Indeed I have had large areas of grass underwater twice this
winter.

Each time I try to register I just get a message saying 'Sorry, our service
does not provide warnings for this address'.


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Brian Wakem
Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather/latest_obs.txt
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather/...am%20Vale.html