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Weather warning site launched across Europe
26/03/2007 – 21 European countries have launched a website offering weather warnings across the continent. Metroalarm was announced following a week-long meteorological conference in Madrid on Friday 23 March 2007.The website offers a unified weather alert system and offers icon-based weather information in 17 languages on a single web page.
The site has been launched it in order to present a reliable way of warning people of any severe weather.
The ability of meteorologists to predict the weather is greater than it has ever been but actually delivering the message to people has become the issue and Metroalarm hopes to resolve this.
"The problem lies in alert systems, not in forecasting systems. That was the big lesson of the tsunami," said Francisco Cadarso, director general of the Spanish National Meteorological Institute, at the conference earlier in the week
Tomas Molina, chairman of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, was clear of what the purpose of the site was. "Our job is to save lives and goods, and this project was needed in Europe," he told a news conference.
The creators of the site want to ensure that website retains creditability so that when it predicts severe weather people will take the appropriate action.
Dieter Schiessl of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) was emphatic about this when he said: "Warnings are only useful if they are believed, understood and acted on."
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Published Date: 2007-03-26 12:24:51Subscribe to our RSS News feed:
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