MeteoAlarm
Sign in to saveMeteoAlarm is a European weather warning website. Development by EUMETNET, the European Network of National Meteorological Services, began in 2002 and the website went live in 2007. MeteoAlarm is designed to consistently visualise awareness information from the MeteoAlarm Members, following an easily understandable colour code of yellow, orange, and red, to ensure coherent interpretation throughout Europe.
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- Colour coding
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- References
- External links
MeteoAlarm is a European weather warning website. Development by EUMETNET, the European Network of National Meteorological Services, began in 2002 and the website went live in 2007. MeteoAlarm is designed to consistently visualise awareness information from the MeteoAlarm Members, following an easily understandable colour code of yellow, orange, and red, to ensure coherent interpretation throughout Europe.
Pictograms and colour-coding convey meaning independent of the user's language. Strong winds, torrential rain, snow and ice, thunderstorms, and extreme temperatures are indicated. Weather conditions that could lead to increased risk such as storm surges, high waves, forest fires and avalanches are also shown.
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