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17 May, 06:00 2021

Next-day risk, Ghent bathing sites, 17 May

SiteRiskvs usualLevel
Gent Blaarmeersen Peuterspeelkreek GNT038.6%5.5xwatch
Gent Blaarmeersen Strand-Badzone GNT028.5%9.4xwatch
Gent Blaarmeersen Zwemsportzone GNT012.6%2.7xnormal
Deinze Vosselare Put DEI011.8%1.6xnormal

Alert at 10% risk (1 alert in 5 is a real exceedance across Europe). Watch at 5x a site's usual risk. Scores use weather up to the day before.

Live: risk from today's weather forecast

Reading the forecast...

Open-Meteo forecast for Ghent, refreshed hourly. The forecast rain stands in for measured rain. The model is tuned for the bathing season, when sites are sampled.

Other hazards: rules on the weather

Reading the weather...

No labelled data exists to train these, so they are rules: warm, calm weather for algae (WHO guidance), heat runs and first flushes for oxygen, heavy daily rain for sewer overflow. Default thresholds; each city tunes its own. They need no local samples, so they run in any city from day one.

Backtest: GENT BLAARMEERSEN PEUTERSPEELKREEK, May 2021

Model trained without any Ghent sample. Observed rain stands in for the forecast.

Watchlab: 489 cfu/100 ml0%6%1 May6 May11 May17 May21 May26 May31 May
Next-day riskRain, mmDashed lines: lab samples (grey = clean)

✓Predict

Two beaches at Blaarmeersen are on Watch: GNT03 at 5.5x its usual risk, and GNT02 at 9.4x, after 22 mm of rain in three days. Watch raises nothing on its own. It asks the officer to look.

2Detect

Waiting for reports from the public page.

3Verify

trust 0.35
  • + 0.35 Model risk 5.5x the site's usual

One source is not enough to go public. The officer confirms once a second source agrees.

4Mobilise

5One Health

6Resolve

7Learn