Question about weather alerts

iKirby

Hi,

I have a question about weather alerts. What is the source of weather alerts for China?

I found that Windy doesn't show weather alerts of the urban area in the city I live in (Xinxiang, Henan. 河南省新乡市). However, alerts are available for surrounding areas like Huojia and Huixian, they are county-level regions under Xinxiang City.

Screenshot from Windy
Windy screenshot

Screenshot from http://www.weather.com.cn/alarm/alarm_list.shtml
weather.com.cn screenshot

idefix37

@iKirby

Click on each Warning area, you'll see which Weather center has issued the warning.

iKirby

@idefix37

Thanks for your reply. I checked serval weather alerts in China, and most of them have a sender of someone's name, not weather center or agency.

I also compared weather apis by Chinese companies, they also have different alerts data. For example yesterday we have hail and thunderstorms warnings here, while the data from ColorfulClouds (彩云天气) showed only hail warning. The data from QWeather (和风天气) showed both of them.

I wonder if Windy could provide more complete data. It's really strange that even some local weather providers here don't have all alerts data. Maybe it's because some of them are not published as CAP Alerts?