River monitoring apps.

[John Carter]

Morning everyone.

Does anyone use an app or apps for monitoring river conditions, and if so, could you give recommendations to try?


Cheers.

 

[Simon Burt]

Hi,
I use a kayakers' app called 'Riverapp'. You can choose your favourite rivers and in the free version you can see the past 24-48 hours as discharge level graphs. Give it a go.

 

[John Carter]

Thanks Simon. I will download it and give it a whirl.

 

[Keith Humphreys]

Morning everyone.

Does anyone use an app or apps for monitoring river conditions, and if so, could you give recommendations to try?


Cheers.

Hi John

I use https://riverlevels.uk/

Very good and if you scroll down the page you get a graph showing trends

 

[John Carter]

Cheers Keith. I will have a look at it.

 

[Richard Isaacs]

I use this one. It’s very good
up to the last 2 days is free or you can pay for more previous recordings

 

[John Carter]

Thanks Richard. That is the same one Simon recommended. I have it installed now.

 

[Gavin Hoe-Richardson]

I use the EA levels website and bookmark the various spots that I fish. Historical data is provided and in some cases a prediction curve which I find useful. Here's an example:

River Swale level at Crakehill - GOV.UK

Check the latest recorded river level and recent 5-day trend at Crakehill

flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk

 

[Paul Collins]

I use the EA ones too, never seen the prediction though.
Is this something that can be activated?

 

[John Carter]

Thanks Gavin. I will have a look into that one too.

 

[John Carter]

I can't seem to fins the prediction facility either Paul.

 

[Mark Swaby]

Do you mean the forecast level, the dotted line, for the next day, Gavin

 

[Gavin Hoe-Richardson]

Do you mean the forecast level, the dotted line, for the next day, Gavin

Yes, that's it, only shows for some stations. You don't have to do anything extra if it's available then it shows.

 

[Gavin Hoe-Richardson]

I use the EA ones too, never seen the prediction though.
Is this something that can be activated?

Hi Paul, no they're either available or not. Only a few stations have the facility which is automatically displayed.

 

[Richard Parsons]

I use this one - as it gives a history back to 2014 (which can be useful).....

GaugeMap

 

[Richard Parsons]

Hi Paul, no they're either available or not. Only a few stations have the facility which is automatically displayed.

I use the EA ones too, never seen the prediction though.
Is this something that can be activated?

If you want to see an example, try the Trent at Willington.

 

[Richard Parsons]

I use this one. It’s very good
up to the last 2 days is free or you can pay for more previous recordings

Pay? No thanks, when there a good free ones.

 

[Alex Warren]

I use the EA .gov ones. If you have an iPhone, you can save websites straight to your home screen through Safari. Just go on the site, click the little icon at the bottom (box with arrow) and select ‘Save to home screen’. Viola. Levels, club forum, bfw at the touch of a button!

 

[Richard Isaacs]

Pay? No thanks, when there a good free ones.

I don’t pay either. It’s free unless you want to look back past 2 days.
it’s the best one I’ve found in the App Store.

 

[Stuart Holmes]

Yes, that's it, only shows for some stations. You don't have to do anything extra if it's available then it shows.

Those forecast levels are really useful IMO. They are only available on a few of my local rivers, and not others. Sometimes the actual timing of the peak levels is slightly off from those predicted, but they give a very helpful and reasonably accurate forecast. Very useful for being able to estimate peaks upstream and downstream of the forecast monitoring stations.
Not quite sure why the forecast levels are only currently available from a small number of monitoring stations. Decided to use the 'feedback' section on the website to request that forecast levels are available for more monitoring stations, to cover a larger number of rivers than at present.