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Twitter feeds forecast real time water, weather and flood for Texas

The USGS Texas Water Dashboard developed by USGS is a online service that provides critical real time water information, weather and flood for Texas at your fingertips on a desktop, smartphone or other mobile device. The USGS uses Twitter to craete twitter feeds and to map the information on weather and water.

With the help of Twitter, USGS TX FloodWatch (@USGS_TexasFlood) and USGS TX RainWatch (@USGS_TexasRain) were developed to distribute water level and precipitation data: . The FloodWatch feed automatically sends out tweets anytime one of about 300 selected USGS streamgages throughout the state rises above the NWS-defined flood level, and delivers information within minutes. The RainWatch feed tweets when rainfall exceeds a rate of 0.4 inches per hour.

“The Texas Water Dashboard provides a user-friendly ‘one-stop’ picture that is of extreme use to water resource managers, with the simplicity to be used by the general public,” said Mark Null, National Weather Service Hydrologist-In-Charge, West Gulf Coast River Forecast Center.

Lawrence Kansas Flood Hazard Area Map

Lawrence Kansas Flood Hazard Area Map

Mapping Chennai Flooded Streets

5884 inundated roads reported

Flood Maps : An  Interactive map to visualize and crowdsource flood related information and inundated roads in Chennai, India using OpenStreetMap and Mapbox GL JS. If your street, building or neighborhood name is missing on the map, you can add it to the basemap directly by editing OSM. The flood map will be updated with the new street in under 10 minutes. The flooded streets layer is contributed by the public. Contributions are anonymous with no version control for the sake of simplicity.