The EA having recorded 1.2 million searches for flood risk in England on February 16th alone. The statistics speak for themselves in terms of the increasing use of this data by the public. The Environment Agency have drastically improved their Flood Warnings service in recent times and the live data available can be put to many uses - this being interpreted most publicly by the EA to warn property owners of impending hazard, allowing them time to address the issue and reduce the risk to their assets and if necessary move to safer areas. Well, we've noticed the increasing use of data being used to more accurately predict flood events and manage response. These follow on the back of flood events in late 2019 when Fishlake became more famous than it perhaps wished to be. Both occurred in short succession over the past few weeks and of course flood risk management is once again at the top of the news agenda. When we blogged about the evolution of data use in flood risk prediction and management just over 2 year’s ago ( Read Our Original Blog Here) we couldn’t have foreseen that the recent spells of inclement weather would be as extreme as they have been but at least we have names for them – Storms Ciara and Dennis. BLOG: HOW DATA AND PARTNERSHIPS COULD MITIGATE A RISING TIDE - 2 YEARS ON 26 February 2020
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