It might be too late a notification for clients to set up flood insurance, but there’s a new mobile phone app available in Alberta that will provide flood advisories.

The data comes directly from the Alberta River Forecasting Centre, the new app provides information about the province’s lakes and rivers, and will include alerts and flood-specific advisories, stream flows and water levels.

It will also provide information on rain and snowfall.

Environment Minister Robin Campbell says the app “helps ensure that people have information they need - especially in emergency situations.”

There is also a map broken into the province's major river basins.

Next month will be the one-year anniversary of the major flood that swept through southern Alberta, causing $2 billion in estimated damage and launching a renewed campaign from both insurers and all levels of government to put into place an overland flood policy.

The Alberta flood was the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.

For more, see ‘Alberta brokers to clients: it won’t be like last time’