Real-time Rainfall Data
Summary
This record is for Approval for Access product AfA501 for approximately 1000 automatic rainfall data from the Environment Agency rainfall API.
The data is available on an update cycle which varies across the country, typically updated daily but updated faster is rainfall is detected. This is update frequency is usually increased during times of flooding, etc.
Readings are transferred via telemetry to internal and external systems in or close to real-time.
Measurement of the rainfall is taken in millimetres (mm) accumulated over 15 minutes. Note that rainfall data is recorded in GMT, so during British Summer Time (BST) data may appear to be an hour old. Data comes from a network of over 1000 gauges across England. Data shown is raw data collected from the gauges and is subject to quality control procedures. As a result, values may change after publication on this website.
Continuous rainfall information is also stored on our hydrometric archive, Wiski, and can be provided in non real-time on request through our customer contact centre. This raw rainfall data is provided to the Met Office for quality control along with all the data from our registered daily storage gauges (c.1400). The quality controlled dataset is covered in AfA148 Quality Controlled Daily and Monthly Raingauge Data from Environment Agency Gauges.
Data from a small selection of Met Office raingauges are included in our open data feed. This data is also available from the Met Office as open data.
Categories
Use limitation statement
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Licence
Open Government LicenceAttribution statement
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence
Technical information
Update frequency
continual
Lineage
Data is collected automatically from rainfall sensors throughout England. These are relayed by telemetry and available through the FWFI Hub as a live feed.
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
- Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
d0ab9696-3447-41c0-863e-9818136dbb85
Published by
Environment Agency
Contact publisher
Defra Data Services ForumDataset reference dates
Creation date
23 January 2017
Revision date
12 March 2021
Publication date
N/A
Period
- From: 23 January 2017