As climate-change-driven disasters pick up pace in the Pacific, traditional knowledge might buy communities more time to prepare. The app has a database of crowd-sourced natural indicators – for example, green turtles nesting further inland suggests a cyclone may be approaching. Therefore, the government is studying the correlation of traditional indicators with weather events, before building this into their climate forecasting model. However Lui says that promoting traditional weather knowledge can help people in secluded areas. This technology is expensive and sparsely located, leading to gaps in meteorological data, she adds.