This is a prototype web tool for displaying water resources and drought information based on:

• Rainfall from the Met Office (provided on a grid, and aggregated up to gauging station catchments and river basins).
• River flows from the National River Flow Archive and Environment Agency.
• Soil moisture (from UK CEH’s COSMOS-UK soil moisture network).

Please note that:

• Near real time river flows are only available for England — these come from the Environment Agency Hydrology data service.
• Dotted lines on the graph mean data remain unchecked (by the Environment Agency) and may be erroneous.
• Data for the last few days is often not available via the Environment Agency service — step back a few days to see the most recent data, or switch to monthly data.
• Rainfall data is only available to the end of the previous month.

For more information on major flood and drought events see the occasional reports of the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme.

We would love to hear how useful this tool is for you. Please send feedback or questions to: nhmp@ceh.ac.uk

For more information, including the datasets and methods used, go to the About page.

We are planning to use this prototype to help develop a replacement for the UK Drought Portal (which only includes rainfall data).