Global Weather Alerts

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Monthly subscription.

    Please refere to the pricing page.

How to get access to Global Weather Alerts

  1. Sign up to OpenWeather service in case you haven't got your API key yet.
  2. Follow the pricing page to learn details about the API monthly price of Global Weather Alerts subscription.

  3. Contact us via email to process your payment and set up access to our Global Weather Alerts.

    Please also provide us with the endpoint that all weather alerts should be sent to.

    Example of the endpoint

    http://test_url.test

Then get all weather alerts to the specified endpoint via POST requests.

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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.