App Profile: RiscBal-App

RiscBal-App is an application developed by the Natural Risks and Emergencies Observatory of the Balearic Islands - RiscBal with real-time information on floods, forest fires, mass movements, droughts and destructive storms in the Balearic Islands.

This RiscBal-App version is under testing phase; it mainly uses the RiscBal-Control environmental monitoring network. It currently provides information on rainfall, soil wetness, and air temperature every 10 minutes at stations RiscBal-Control stations and rainfall and air temperature every hour from 42 AEMET stations. It also provides information every 5 minutes on water level at 55 RiscBal-Control hydrometric stations located in rivers with a significant flood risk, as well as a 2-hour forecast at these same stations and dangerous places on the road network. Therefore, during risky events, yellow, orange or red alert warnings are issued.