Global Weather Alerts - OpenWeatherMap

Get timely push notifications about severe weather. Our Global Weather Alerts product allows you to set up weather alert push notifications in your projects and apps.

We collect weather warnings from majority of national weather warning systems and present them in a uniform and useful view.

Features of Global Weather Alerts

We provide all weather alerts from the entire world.

We collect weather alert notifications from majority of national weather warning systems worldwide. As soon as we get a new weather alert, we process it and send to our users via push notifications. Users get all weather alert notifications sent to their specified endpoint. We send notifications about new weather alerts and 15 minutes before they start, alert updates and alert cancellations.
All necessary data in the push notification.

Each push notification contains the necessary fields, such as the headline of the alert, its start and end dates, and a description. Additionally, each alert has data about urgency, severity, certainty and sender agency, to help users classify alerts according to various criteria. Here is a full list of the fields in the alert push notification.
Monthly subscription.

Please refere to the pricing page.

How to get access to Global Weather Alerts

There are two simple steps:

To obtain the access to our Global Weather Alerts, please contact us at info@openweathermap.org.

Please specify the endpoint that all weather alerts should be sent to.

Example of the endpoint

http://test_url.test
Get all weather alerts to the specified endpoint via POST requests.

Get access

Description of alert notification

Example of an alert notification

                   
alert: {
                id: "2.49.0.0.428.0.LV.201201000201.46453_0",
                geometry: {
                    type: "Polygon",
                    coordinates: [[[-79.322,43.1293],[-79.7776,
                    43.1723], ... [-79.322,43.1293]]]
                        }
                    },
                msg_type: "warning",
                categories: [ "Met"],
                urgency: "Future",
                severity: "Moderate",
                certainty: "Likely",
                start: 1606896000,
                end: 1606982400,
                sender: "AIRNow Program, US Environmental Protection 
                    Agency",
                description: [ 
                    {
                        "language" : "En",
                        "event" : "Particle Pollution (2.5 microns) 
                        is forecast to reach 105 AQI - Unhealthy for 
                        Sensitive Groups on Wed 12/02/2020. Particle
                        Pollution (2.5 microns) is forecast to reach 
                        102 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups on 
                        Thu 12/03/2020. ",
                        "headline" : "Air Quality Alert for 
                        Natomas",
                        "description" : "Particle Pollution 
                        (2.5 microns) is forecast to reach 105 AQI 
                        - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups on Wed 
                        12/02/2020. Particle Pollution (2.5 microns) 
                        is forecast to reach 102 AQI - Unhealthy for 
                        Sensitive Groups on Thu 12/03/2020. ",
                        "instruction" : "Active children and adults, 
                        and people with lung disease, such as 
                        asthma, should reduce prolonged or heavy 
                        exertion outdoors"
                        }
                        ],
}

Fields in alert notifications

alert

id Alert ID
geometry GeoJSON representation of the area, where the alert is forecasted

msg_type Notification type. Please see the full list of notifications types here
categories Category of the alert. May be one of Geo, Met, Safety, Security, Rescue, Fire, Health, Env, Transport, Infra, CBRNE, Other
urgency Urgency of the alert. May be one of Immediate, Expected, Future, Unknown
severity Severity of the alert. May be one of Extreme, Severe, Moderate, Minor, Unknown
certainty Certainty of the alert. May be one of Observed, Likely, Possible, Unlikely, Unknown
start Date and time of the start of the alert, Unix, UTC
end Date and time of the end of the alert, Unix, UTC
sender Name of the alert source. Please read here the full list of alert sources
description

description.language Language of the alert's event name, headline, description and instruction. Please note that this field can be empty
description.event Alert evente name
description.headline Headline of the alert
description.description Description of the alert
description.instruction Instructions from agency about the alert

Weather alerts are provided in English by default.
Please note:

Some agencies provide the alert’s event name, headline, description and instruction only in a local language.
Some agencies provide the alert’s event name, headline, description and instruction in several languages. In this case, all available languages will be listed in the "description" section.

Types of alert notifications

Message type	Message description
`warning`	Notification of an alert that has just been created Notification 15 minutes before the start of an alert event
`update`	Notification of updating alert information
`cancel`	Notification of alert cancellation

List of alerts sources

Country	Agency
Afghanistan	National Disaster Management Authority
Albania	Institute of GeoSciences, Energy, Water and Environment
Algeria	National Meteorological Office
Anguilla	Disaster Management Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda	Meteorological Services
Argentina	Servicio Meteorologico Nacional
Aruba	Meteorological Department of Aruba
Austria	Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics Water Balance Department
Barbados	Department of Emergency Management
Belgium	Royal Meteorological Institute
Bosnia and Herzegovin	Federal Hydrometeorological Institute of BiH Republic Hydrometeorological Institute
Botswana	Department of Meteorological Services
Brazil	National Meteorological Institute - INMET
Bulgaria	National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology - Plovdiv branch
Canada	Alberta Emergency Management Agency (Government of Alberta, Ministry of Municipal Affairs) Meteorological Service of Canada Quebec Ministry of Public Safety
Colombia	UNGRD (National Unit for Disaster Risk Management)
Croatia	State Hydrometeorological Institute (DHMZ)
Cyprus	Meteorological Service
Czech Republic	Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
Denmark	Danmarks Meteorologiske Instituts
Estonia	State Weather Service
Federated States of Micronesia	Weather Service Office Chuuk Weather Service Office Pohnpei Weather Service Office Yap
Finland	Finnish Meteorological Institute
France	Meteo-France
Germany	German Meteorological Office
Greece	Hellenic National Meteorological Service
Guyana	Hydrometeorological Service
Hungary	Hungarian Meteorological Service
Iceland	Icelandic Meteorological Office
India	Meteorological Department
Indonesia	Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics of Republic Indonesia (BMKG) InaTEWS BMKG, Earthquake with magnitude 5.0 above
Ireland	Met Eireann - Irish Meteorological Service
Israel	Meteorological Service
Italy	National Center of Meteorology and Aeronautical Climatology (CNMCA)
Jamaica	Meteorological Service
Kenya	Meteorological Department
Kuwait	Meteorological Department
Latvia	Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center
Lithuania	Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service
Luxembourg	Luxembourg Airport Administration
Madagascar	Operational Meteorology
Malawi	Meteorological Services
Malta	Meteorological Office
Marshall Islands	Majuro Weather Service Office
Mexico	CONAGUA - National Meteorological Service of Mexico
Moldova	State Hydrometeorological Service
Mongolia	National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring
Montenegro	Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology
Myanmar	Department of Meteorology and Hydrology
Netherlands	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
New Zealand	GNS Science MetService National Emergency Management Agency
North Macedonia	Republic Hydrometeorological Organization
Norway	Norwegian Meteorological Institute Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
Oman	Directorate General of Meteorology
Palau	Weather Service Office
Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea Meteorological Service
Paraguay	Directorate of Meteorology and Hydrology
Philippines	Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Poland	Institute of Meteorology and Water Management
Portugal	Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere, I.P.
Romania	National Meteorological Administration
Russia	Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
Saint Lucia	Meteorological Services
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Meteorological Services
Samoa	Meteorology Division
Senegal	National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology
Serbia	Republic Hydrometeorological Institute
Slovakia	Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute
Slovenia	National Meteorological Service
Solomon Islands	Meteorological Service
South Africa	South Africa Weather Service
Spain	Meteorology Statal Agency
Suriname	Suriname Meteorological Service
Sweden	Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Switzerland	MeteoSwiss, Bundesamt für Meteorologie und Klimatologie
Tanzania	Meteorological Authority
Thailand	Thai Meteorological Department
Tonga	Tonga Meteorological Service
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Met Office
United States	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Air Quality Alerts Integrated Public Alerrt and Warning System (IPAWS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Tsunami Warning Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service - Marine Zones U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Volcano Hazard Program
Vanuatu	Meteorological Services
Zimbabwe	Meteorological Services Department

Please note that some agencies from the list may cease to provide us the weather alert information.
In case you don’t receive alerts from any agency, please contact us.
We constantly work on our product’s improvement and keep expanding the list of partner agencies.