# Is the river behaving

> Usually nothing. That is the point of it.

- Category: Environment
- Cadence: live
- Status: Live: values change continuously; cite the retrieval time.
- Dataset key: `live-floods`
- Source: [Environment Agency](https://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/is-the-river-behaving](https://londongraph.com/g/is-the-river-behaving)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/is-the-river-behaving](https://londongraph.com/data/is-the-river-behaving)

## Methodology

Environment Agency flood warnings and alerts within 60km of central London. Severity 1 is the most serious. Most of the time this graph reads zero, which is the honest state of an instrument that exists to light up during a storm rather than to carry a number every day.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/is-the-river-behaving): Usually nothing. That is the point of it.
- [Warning areas](https://londongraph.com/g/is-the-river-behaving?view=warning-areas): Draw active Environment Agency warning and alert polygons.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.