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I live in Portugal, and not only do I have a weather station, I’ve set up flood gauges with GSM uplinks along several local rivers - because I live in a watermi
by madaxe_again 2y ago
I live in Portugal, and not only do I have a weather station, I’ve set up flood gauges with GSM uplinks along several local rivers - because I live in a watermill and I want to know when we’re about to have a bad time, after getting hit by a centenary flood.
Nobody wants the data, sadly - there used to be a national monitoring system on rivers up and down the country, but after 2008 it was abandoned, and now there’s only limited monitoring of major rivers, and none of tributaries. The IPMA and APA eventually responded and said thanks for your interest, but we have no means to ingest third party data.
I wish it could be useful for someone other than myself - but short of building my own platform and ingesting the APA’s copyrighted data, it ain’t happening.
- jeffbee 2y ago> after 2008 it was abandoned It's scary how easily this happens. Even America briefly reduced funding to the USGS during the Trump years, among other agencies that saw budgets cut for anything that collects data on the environment. The impact was immediate and now certain important time series including stream gauges and ground water levels have years of missing data because those programs were shut down.
- madaxe_again 2y agoIronically, a lot of the gauges here have been destroyed by floods and were never replaced.