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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/harvey-impact/">The <em>Washington Post</em> maps</a> rainfall and flooding levels in the Houston area.</p>
<p><em>The New York Times</em> is collecting several maps on two web pages. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/hurricane-harvey-texas.html">The first page</a> deals with subjects like rainfall, river level, current and historical hurricane tracks, damage reports, and cities and counties under evacuation orders. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/28/us/houston-maps-hurricane-harvey.html">Maps on the second page</a> look at Harvey&#8217;s impact on the Houston area.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/PublicInformation/index.html?appid=542e7fa7eadd49deb780648daf487e76&amp;adumkts=branding&amp;aduc=social&amp;adum=external&amp;aduSF=twitter&amp;utm_source=social&amp;aduca=storymap&amp;aduco=US_Flooding_Map_Harvey&amp;adut=8_28_17&amp;aducp=branding&amp;adbsc=social_branding_20170828_1763201&amp;adbid=902240380908822528&amp;adbpl=tw&amp;adbpr=16132791">Esri&#8217;s U.S. Flooding Public Information Map</a> includes precipitation and flood warnings.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> in perspective.  So much rain has fallen, we&#39;ve had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it. <a href="https://t.co/Su7x2K1uuz">pic.twitter.com/Su7x2K1uuz</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NWS (@NWS) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS/status/902174274571689984">August 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><a href="http://cartonerd.blogspot.ca/2017/08/too-much-rain-for-rainbow.html">Kenneth Field critiques</a> the National Weather Service&#8217;s decision to add more colours to their precipitation maps (see <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS/status/902174274571689984">above</a>). &#8220;Simply adding colours to the end of an already poor colour scheme and then making the class representing the largest magnitude the very lightest colour is weak symbology. But then, they&#8217;ve already used all the colours of the rainbow so they&#8217;re out of options!&#8221;</p>
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