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MeteoAlarm is a European weather warning website. It has been developed for EUMETNET, the European Network of National Meteorological Services. 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 regardless 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.[1]
There are four colours to point out the weather conditions: green, yellow, orange, and red.
A greyscale map is available for colour-blind users.
MeteoAlarm.org has been developed for EUMETNET, the European Network of National Meteorological Services who are members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The National Meteorological Service of Austria (GeoSphere Austria) is the responsible member for this project and does the technical realisation. The National Meteorological Service of the Netherlands KNMI (Koninklijk Nederland's Meteorologisch Instituut) gave close support. This project is officially called the European Multiservice Meteorological Awareness (EMMA) Project.
The member countries of MeteoAlarm are: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.[3]
The EMMA Project received in October 2008 the EMS (European Meteorological Society) Outreach & Communication Award for the website www.meteoalarm.org.[4] The panel thought that this project was an excellent example of putting a bridge between weather services, science, and society.