Weather warnings for Belgium

Hourly warnings of dangerous meteorological phenomena (wind, rain, ice or snow, fog, storm surge, thunderstorm) issued by the RMI, based on the estimated impact.

This product is not publically available yet.

Date (Creation): 2003-01-09

Identifier: RMI-be / warnings

Status: On going

Point of contact

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Owner

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Maintenance and update frequency: Continual

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric conditions
Human health and safety

Keywords

federal government
forecast
wind
rain
fog
snow
warnings
thunderstorms
surge

Spatial scope

National

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Use constraints: Intellectual property rights

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2003-01-09T14:15:00

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Common Alerting Protocol ( 1.2 )

OnLine resource: RMI opendata portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
RMI opendata portal

OnLine resource: FTP directory to download warning Common Alerting Protocol messages ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )
FTP directory to download warning Common Alerting Protocol messages

OnLine resource: HTTP repository to download warning Common Alerting Protocol messages ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
HTTP repository to download warning Common Alerting Protocol messages

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: The warnings of the RMI is a product based on the expertise of the forecasters, using different tools and datasets (observations, radar, satellite, numerical weather prediction output, ...). The forecasters attempt to identify the region (grosso modo the provinces of Belgium), the timing and the intensity of each phenomenon. Warnings are issued for the coming 36h. The output is translated into a colour and text corresponding to its intensity (green: no severe weather expected, yellow: the weather is potentially dangerous, orange: the weather is dangerous, red: the weather is very dangerous). The RMI is the only institute that can issue official atmospheric weather warnings for Belgium.