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Alerts/Notifications

We all know that we have more options and choices when we have more warning that something is coming. Lucky for us, there are a lot of free notificiation services to that do just that. Notification services are most effective when they provide only information about areas where you are likely to be. See if there are settings that will allow it to alert you for only local events-otherwise you will begin to treat the information as back ground noise or junk mail, since most times they won't provide information you can act on.

Emergency information, traffic disruptions, most severe warnings:
Free email, text message, or phone Alerts: King Snohomish: www.RPIN.org (the source of this information is the emergency management and disaster response agencies, not weather services)

Weather Warning

The National Weather Service and NOAA will text your cell phone: http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/user/register (iNWS SMS is targeted at community decision makers, government officials and news media.)

Weather.com Severe Weather Alerts and email weather: https://registration.weather.com/ursa/alerts/step1?initAlerts=SVR

Weather warnings, on computer, to email for fee http://www.weatherbug.com (requires download and installation, computer alerts are free, phone alerts have an additional fee)

NOAA Weather Alerts and and Warnings (news feed, needs RSS reader): http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/wa.rss#

By region in Washington

NOAA Weather Radio live stream http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/streamaudio.htm#livestream

Solar Weather Alerts http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/index.html

USGS Water Alerts http://water.usgs.gov/wateralert/

NOAA Flood Alerts (news feed, needs RSS reader) http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/rss/al<ert/wa.rss

Snoqualmie River notification: http://www.floodzilla.com/

SeaTac? Flight Delays: http://hosting.portseattle.org/fids/FlightInfo.aspx?MenuItem=2

WSDOT Freight System Disruption Alerts: email to sign up:

Earthquake Notifications (this tells when and where earthquakes have taking place-if you are in an area affected by a large earthquake, you will already know before the alert))
Earthquake Notification Service by email https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/

Air Quality Notification, American Lung Association: http://www.alaw.org/air_quality/e-forecast_service/sign-up-today.html

News Feeds can provide you real time information that there is an alert-it is up to you to have a way to receive the feed--there are no chimes or flashes related to new information:
(requires RSS reader, see RSS News Feeds)

Real Time Data Compilations

Seattle Situation Room: http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/Situationpagenews.asp?af=&sit=68&z=&np=

Western Washington Disaster Ready A private website with that pulls together feeds relating to Western Washington Disaters: http://www.netvibes.com/disasterready#Real_Time_Data It is possible to personalize this website and include your own feeds and links.

Mashup of Web 2.0 coverage of high media active disasters (Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, News) http://crisiswire.com/

US: http://www.disastercenter.com/

http://nhss.cr.usgs.gov/index.shtml

FEMA Daily Situation Report. See what FEMA is keeping it's eye on: http://www.fema.gov/emergency/reports/2008/nat121708.shtm

Social Media Filters

Twitter Feed by location and topic (may work better in other browsers than IE8 http://www.monitter.com/#

Mapped Blogged Stories (King County) http://outside.in/Seattle_WA/map

Bing Maps: Twitter App http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/0.40326=/5872/style=auto&lat=47.607721&lon=-122.33681&z=15&pid=5874

Active Disasters

Map of incidents Washington State: Inciweb: Washington: http://www.inciweb.org/state/49/

National:

USGS National Hazards Support System http://nhss.cr.usgs.gov/#

http://www.inciweb.org/

Near Real Time Satellite Imagry

NASA Rapid Response Teams http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/2009097/

North American Subsets: http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/subsets.htm#

Real Time 911

Seattle: http://www2.seattle.gov/fire/realTime911/getRecsForDatePub.asp?action=Today&incDate=&rad1=des

Mapped 911

http://www.public911.com/

http://web1.seattle.gov/seastats/doImpacts.aspx

Lake Forest Park: Crime Reports: http://crimereports.com/map?search=lake+forest+park+wa&searchButton.x=43&searchButton.y=20

http://spotcrime.com/wa/ (near real time)

Bellevue http://bellevuewa.gov/crimemap/monthlyCrimeMap.aspx

Environmental

King County Environmental Monitoring http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/data-and-trends/monitoring-data.aspx

King County Beach Bacteria Tracking http://green.kingcounty.gov/swimbeach/

Air Quality Conditions and Forecasts

http://airnow.gov/

For Washington: http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.fcsummary&stateid=56

King, Kitsap, Snohomish, Pierce http://www.pscleanair.org/airq/aqi.aspx

http://www.weather.gov/aq/sectors/pacnorthwest.php#tabs

Ozone Hole

http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Transportation

Traffic:

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/trafficalerts/

http://trafficland.com/#city/SEA/camera/5736

www.maps.live.com (search for your area, select traffic option, when available shows traffic and incidents)

www.maps.google.com

King County Road Alerts: http://gismaps.kingcounty.gov/roadalert/

Call 511 for travel updates: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/511/ From payphone: 1-800-695-7623 (ROAD)

Real Time Traffic in downtown Bellevue(includes side streets)http://trafficmap.cityofbellevue.net/Default.aspx

Bellevue Traffic Cameras http://www.bellevuewa.gov/trafficcam/

Seattle Area Travel Times http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/traveltimes/

Cross State Travel

Cross State Travel Maps: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/travelroutes/

Road Temperature Maps

http://wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/RoadTemps/

Mass Transit:

King County http://mybus.org/
Phone, SMS, Web real time bus status info: http://onebusaway.org/

Air:

Sea Tac Real Time Flight Info: http://hosting.portseattle.org/fids/FlightInfo.aspx?MenuItem=0

for mobile users: http://hosting.portseattle.org/fids/Default.aspx?Mobile=YES

Flight Delay Information: http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/nwmap.jsp

AOPA Real Time Flight Planner (requires download) http://www.aopa.org/flight_planner/

Aviation Web Cams: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/WebCam/WebCamMapLg.htm

Air Traffic Control System Command Center Advisories: http://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/advADB.jsp

With Google Earth: 3D Flights to Seattle in real time (go to View Live In Bound Flights, Select SeaTac? and press the button) http://fboweb.com/flighttracking/#

Flight Tracking: http://flightaware.com/live/

Ferries

Ferry Weather http://i90.atmos.washington.edu/ferry/Ferryjs/mainframe1.htm

Ocean Shipping

72 hour Demo for near real time tracker of shipping vessels (requires download and installation of software): http://www.shippingexplorer.net/download.html

Buoy Data

National Data Buoy Center: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/Northwest.shtml

PNW Buoy alarm: (you can follow any relevent buoy's on Twitter) http://www.buoyalarm.com/map.php?region=5

King County Lake Buoy Data http://green.kingcounty.gov/lake-buoy/default.aspx

Weather

Pacific NorthWest? Weather Satellite images (with no interpretation) http://www.ocs.oregonstate.edu/index.html

Global Cloud loop: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?vis1km+/24h/1h+-st

Interactive Weather Map http://www.komonews.com/weather/int_radar

UW Northwest Observational Data: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/

National Doppler Radio sites: http://radar.weather.gov/

Seattle Rain Watch http://www.atmos.washington.edu/SPU/?section=prod

Fire Weather

See how to reduce risks caused by wildland fire
NOAA Satellite Derived Fire Forecast: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/firecomp/nw/

Heat

Early National Heat Index (gives prediction for dangerous heat vs real time conditions)
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/early_heat_index_MAX.shtml

Hurricanes

See how to reduce risks caused by severe wind

National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Stormpulse http://www.stormpulse.com/

Space Weather

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html

http://spaceweather.com/

Satellite flybys (enter your zipcode and see which satallites are flying over at any time.) :

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/?PHPSESSID=4mtuhi5mt9odh9fg8r47d96fc3

Utility Disruptions

Power

Puget Sound Energy Outage Map http://www.pse.com/safetyReliability/pseservicealert/Pages/ServiceAlertMaps.aspx
Seattle Outage Information http://www2.seattle.gov/light/outage2/

Internet

UW, Monitoring Internet Reachability: http://hubble.cs.washington.edu/

Water

See how to reduce risks caused by disruptions to the water supply

Water Supply

Seattle Area Water Supply Graphs (near real time) http://www.cityofseattle.net/UTIL/groups/public/@spu/@csb/documents/webcontent/spu01_005041.pdf

Water Quality

By State: Real time water data (quality, depth, etc.) Build your own table, National: waterdata.usgs.gov

By County: Real time water data (quality, depth, etc.) Build your own table, Washington: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/wa/nwis/current?search_criteria=county_cd&search_criteria=huc_cd&submitted_form=introduction

Flood levels

See how to reduce risks caused by flood

NOAA: http://ahps2.wrh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=sew

http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/

King County: http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/waterandland/flooding/warning-system/floodmap.aspx

http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/?m=flood&w=map&r=wa

Streamflow

Current Streamflow Conditions in the United States http://water.usgs.gov/realtime.html : Current-conditions data from selected surface-water, ground-water, and water-quality sites are typically recorded at 15-60 minute intervals, stored onsite, and then transmitted to USGS offices every 1 to 4 hours, depending on the data relay technique used. Recording and transmission times may be more frequent during critical events.

Monthly Average Streamflow Conditions http://water.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/waterwatch?state=us&map_type=nwc&web_type=map : This monthly map shows the average streamflow conditions in hydrologic units of the United States and Puerto Rico for the past calendar month. The colors represent monthly average streamflow compared to percentiles of historical streamflow for the calendar month. Maps from previous months are also available.

Drought

See how to reduce risks caused by drought

Drought Monitor: http://drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_west.htm

Tsunami

See how to reduce risks caused by tsunami

NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

Earthquakes

See how to reduce risks caused by earthquakes

Recent Earthquakes:

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/latest.htm

Pacific NW Seismic Network: http://www.pnsn.org/req2/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ : These maps show earthquake events recorded in the last 7 days. Click on an earthquake on one of the maps to zoom in. Once maximum zoom is attained, click on one of the colored boxes to see information on that specific earthquake. The maps are updated whenever a new earthquake has been located and once an hour.

IRIS: World Earthquake Map with depths shown: http://www.iris.edu/servlet/eventserver/map.do

Interactive Seismic Activity map: http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

EarthScope? Google Map--allows you to select the monitoring device closest to your house, and see it's record fo data for subduction movement, seismic, GPS, Strainmeter, megnetotelluric http://www.earthscope.org/gmap/es_gmap.php

Hydro-acoustic monitoring: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/nepac/nepac_seis.html

Near-Real-Time? Earthquake List http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php : This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours). The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list.

Live Internet Seismic Server http://www.liss.org/ : This server brings in live seismic data, via the Internet, from seismographic stations around the world. This page provides links to live seismic data, current telemetry status and general and detailed information on the LISS

Landslide

See how to reduce risks caused by landslides

Landslide Monitoring http://landslides.usgs.gov/monitoring/index.php : Scientists in the USGS Landslide Hazards Program monitor selected landslides and hillsides in order to learn more about the physical processes that trigger landslides or control their movement. Monitoring is essential to predicting the behavior of landslides and forecasting which storms can trigger large numbers of landslides. Continuous, real-time monitoring occurs at some sites and periodic monitoring occurs at others; the most recent measurements are provided on-line for a few of our monitoring sites.

Seattle Area Landslide threshold: http://landslides.usgs.gov/monitoring/seattle/rtd/plot.php

Reported Landslides (only active when recent slide) http://www.dnr.wa.gov/ResearchScience/Topics/GeologicHazardsMapping/Pages/QuickReport.aspx

NASA: Predicted Heavy Rain/Landslide areas: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/potential_flood_hydro.html

Volcano

See how to reduce risks caused by volcano

http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/cvo/current_updates.php

Volcano Monitoring from Space: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/volcano.html

Cascade Volcano Observatory (CVO) Real-Time? Monitoring Projects http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Monitoring/real_time_projects.html : CVO provides links to "real-time" data on the current eruption of Mount St. Helens and hydrologic conditions around the volcano.

Volcanoes Hazards Updates http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/update.html : Activity reports for U.S. and Russian volcanoes are updated every 15 minutes if necessary.

Front Page color coded warning: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

VolcanoCams? Around the World http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Photo/volcano_cams.html : The Cascades Volcano Observatory maintains a page of links to volcano webcams all over the planet. Mount Saint Helens is the first link on the list.

Wildland Fire

See how to reduce risks caused by wildland fire

Washington State Fire Risk: http://www2.wadnr.gov/burn-risk/

Pacific Northwest Interagency WildFire? Coordination Group: http://www.nwccweb.us/

NOAA Satellite and Information Service Fire Detect, Smoke or Plumes: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm

GeoMAC Wildfire Mapping http://geomac.usgs.gov : An Internet-based mapping tool to access online maps of current fire locations and perimeters in the conterminous 48 States and Alaska.

http://www.swcleanair.org/burninginfo.html#Clark

USDA Active Fire Mapping Project: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/activefiremaps.php

University of Maryland: Fire Information for Resource Management System http://maps.geog.umd.edu/firms/

NASA: Rapid Response Team: Near Real Time images from space: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Geomagnetic Observations

http://geomag.usgs.gov/ : Magnetometer data from the USGS observatories are available in two forms, ‘preliminary’ and ‘definitive’. Preliminary data are available in near-real time, but they are unprocessed, they have not been explicitly adjusted for long-term baseline drift, and they have not been cleaned of occasional spikes and step offsets. Having said that, preliminary data are reasonably good representations of field variation occurring over timescales shorter than a few days.

Health

Flu

Washington state flu surveilance: http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/Epidemiology/CD/fluupdate.htm

Bi-weekly King County flu snapshot http://tinyurl.com/nl7u99

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Buoy Data

Weather

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Space Weather

Utility Disruptions

Power

Internet

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