Drought category, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and groundwater level.
Authoritative sources exist and publish continuously. Adapter not built.
The published drought category for an area for a week.
Volumetric moisture at the probe depth the operator publishes.
Modelled water loss for an area over a period.
Water level in a monitored well.
An analyst or a model produced this from other data. It is a product, not a sensor.
An instrument read a value at a place and a time.
Covers an area, not a point. There is no nearest station, and we will not invent one.
Measured at a fixed station. The record discloses which one and how far it is from you.
An authoritative body's analytical product. Its uncertainty is the source's own.
Published by an authoritative operator of the instrument.
The Drought Monitor is a weekly composite produced by analysts, not a sensor reading. It is authoritative and it is a judgement, and the record has to carry it as the second thing rather than the first.
Not named here yet. Candidate sources for this lane exist and are identified internally, but they have not been verified against the primary documentation — and an unverified source attribution on a public page is the exact mistake this company exists to avoid. They appear here when they have been checked, not before.
Crop insurance settlement. A water rights dispute. A subsidence claim against groundwater withdrawal. Low-water navigation restrictions on the river.
That framing is our analysis of where disputes arise, not a claim of fact about any matter.
We are not capturing this lane today, so there is nothing here to sell you and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we do want is to know what you would actually ask it. Requests decide what gets built next — that is not a courtesy, it is how the order is set.