Sam Everitt, Hydrometry Technical Specialist, the Environment Agency

Just launched: Near-real-time Rainfall API

Sam Everitt, Hydrometry Technical Specialist, the Environment Agency, 10 February 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra services, Open data

To complement our (the Environment Agency’s) publication of open data on river levels, we have now made near real-time rainfall data available via an API.

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