Global Weather Alerts

Receive timely push notifications about severe weather. Our Global Weather alerts lets you set up push notifications for weather alerts in your projects and apps.

We collect weather warnings from a vast array of national weather warning systems, and present them in a convenient way.

Please note that the dissemination of alerts issued by national weather agencies may experience delays of up to 30 minutes.

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. If an alert is scheduled to start more than 15 minutes in the future, it is stored and resent 15 minutes before its onset time. If an update to the same alert is received, it is treated as a separate alert for notification purposes. Users get all weather alert notifications sent to their specified endpoint.
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.

How to get access to Global Weather Alerts

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

Example of API response

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Example of an alert notification with a multipolygon

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Example of an alert notification about flood

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Fields in alert notifications

alert
- id Alert ID
- geometry GeoJSON representation of the area, where the alert is forecasted
  - type The type of geometry. May be one of Polygon or MultiPolygon
  - coordinates List of the coordinates of the polygons vertices
msg_type Notification type, default value is warning
categories Category of the alert. Available category is Met
urgency Urgency of the alert. May be one of Immediate, Expected, Future, Past, 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 forecasted event, Unix, UTC
end Date and time of the end of the forecasted event, Unix, UTC
sender Name of the alert source. Please read here the full list of alert sources
description
- language Language of the alert's event name, headline, description and instruction. Please note that this field can be empty
- event Alert event name
- headline Headline of the alert
- description Description of the alert
- 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.

List of alerts sources

Country	Agency
Albania	Institute of GeoSciences, Energy, Water and Environment of Albania
Algeria	National Meteorological Office
Argentina	National Weather Service of Argentina
Australia	Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Austria	Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics Water Balance Department
Bahrain	Bahrain Meteorological Directorate
Barbados	Barbados Meteorological Service
Belarus	State institution "Republican center for hydrometeorology, control of radioactive contamination and environmental monitoring" (Belhydromet)
Belgium	Royal Meteorological Institute
Belize	National Meteorological Service of Belize
Benin	National Meteorological Agency (METEO-BENIN)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Federal Hydrometeorological Institute of BiH Republic Hydrometeorological Institute
Botswana	Botswana Meteorological Services
Brazil	National Meteorological Institute - INMET
Bulgaria	National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology - Plovdiv branch
Cameroon	Cameroon National Meteorological Service
Canada	Alberta Emergency Management Agency (Government of Alberta, Ministry of Municipal Affairs) Meteorological Service of Canada Quebec Ministry of Public Safety Yukon Emergency Measures Organization Manitoba Emergency Management Organization
Chile	Meteorological Directorate of Chile
Congo	National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC Congo)
Costa Rica	National Meteorological Institute of Costa Rica
Croatia	State Hydrometeorological Institute (DHMZ)
Curacao and Sint Maarten	Meteorological Department Curacao
Cyprus	Republic of Cyprus - Department of Meteorology
Czech Republic	Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
Denmark	Danish Meteorological Institute
Ecuador	Ecuadoran Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMHI)
Egypt	Egyptian Meteorological Authority
Estonia	Estonian Environment Agency
Eswatini	Eswatini Meteorological Service
Finland	Finnish Meteorological Institute
France	Meteo-France
Gabon	General Directorate of Meteorology of Gabon
Germany	German Meteorological Office
Ghana	Ghana Meteorological Agency
Greece	Hellenic National Meteorological Service
Guinea	National Meteorological Agency of Guinea
Guyana	Hydrometeorological Service of Guyana
Hong Kong China	Hong Kong Observatory
Hungary	Hungarian Meteorological Service
Iceland	Icelandic Meteorological Office
India	India Meteorological Department
Indonesia	Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics of Republic Indonesia (BMKG) InaTEWS BMKG
Ireland	Met Eireann - Irish Meteorological Service
Israel	Israel Meteorological Service
Italy	Italian Air Force National Meteorological Service
Ivory Coast	Airport, aeronautical and meteorological operating and development company (SODEXAM)
Jamaica	Meteorological Service of Jamaica
Japan	Japan Meteorological Business Support Center
Jordan	Jordanian Meteorological Department
Kazakhstan	National Hydrometeorological Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazhydromet)
Kenya	Kenya Meteorological Department
Kuwait	Kuwait Meteorological Department
Latvia	Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center
Lesotho	Lesotho Meteorological Services
Libya	Libyan National Meteorological Center
Lithuania	Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania (LHMS)
Luxembourg	Luxembourg Airport Administration
Macao China	Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau
Madagascar	METEO Madagascar
Malawi	Malawi Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services
Maldives	Maldives Meteorological Service
Mauritania	National Meteorological Office of Mauritania
Mauritius	Mauritius Meteorological Services
Mexico	CONAGUA - National Meteorological Service of Mexico
Moldova	State Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova
Mongolia	National Agency Meteorology and the Environmental Monitoring of Mongolia
Mozambique	National Institute of Meteorology of Mozambique
Myanmar	Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology
Netherlands	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
New Zealand	Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited National Emergency Management Agency Fire and Emergency New Zealand Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Groups
New Zealand	New Zealand Emergency Mobile Alert
Niger	National Meteorological Directorate of Niger
Nigeria	Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet)
North Macedonia	National Hydrometeorological Service - Republic of Macedonia
Norway	Norwegian Meteorological Institute Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
Paraguay	Directorate of Meteorology and Hydrology
Philippines	Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Poland	Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW-PIB)
Portugal	Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere, I.P.
Qatar	Qatar Meteorology Department
Republic of Korea	Korea Meteorological Administration, Weather Information
Romania	National Meteorological Administration
Russia	Hydrometcenter of Russia
Saudi Arabia	National Center for Meteorology - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Serbia	Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia
Seychelles	Seychelles Meteorological Authority
Singapore	Meteorological Service Singapore
Slovakia	Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute
Slovenia	National Meteorological Service of Slovenia
Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands Meteorological Services
South Africa	South African Weather Service (SAWS)
Spain	State Meteorological Agency (AEMET)
Sudan	Sudan Meteorological Authority
Sweden	Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Switzerland	MeteoSwiss
Tanzania	Tanzania Meteorological Authority
Thailand	Thai Meteorological Department
Timor-Leste	National Directorate of Meteorology and Geophysics of Timor-Leste
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service
Ukraine	Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center
United Arab Emirates (UAE)	National Center of Meteorology (NCM), United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	UK Met Office
Uruguay	Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology
USA	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Air Quality Alerts Integrated Public Alert 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
Uzbekistan	Uzhydromet
Yemen	Yemeni Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority (CAMA)
Zambia	Meteorological Department Zambia
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.