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Live weather, rain and river conditions for all 10 regions of Guyana on one map, in plain language.
Free, and built to be light on mobile data.
How the flood watch works
Data sources
Weather & rain — Open-Meteo.com forecast API,
CC BY 4.0 . Computer-model estimates, not station readings.
Checked at 25 points across the regions.
River flow — Open-Meteo Flood API (CC BY 4.0),
based on the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS )
of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. Modeled on a ~5 km grid, not gauge readings.
Region boundaries — geoBoundaries (GUY ADM1),
from © OpenStreetMap contributors ,
ODbL 1.0 . Simplified for this site.
Base map — OpenFreeMap ,
© OpenMapTiles , data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Terrain shading (large screens) — Terrain Tiles
on AWS Open Data, by Mapzen, from SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1 and others .
Software — MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3),
Space Grotesk font (SIL OFL).