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Weather Warnings Mark Rogers, Met Office Advisor (Civil Contingencies) Content Keeping up to date with forecasts Weather Warnings Monitoring Flood Risk Get Ready for Winter Campaign Naming Storms What will winter 2015/16

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Weather Warnings

Mark Rogers, Met Office Advisor (Civil Contingencies)

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Content

  • Keeping up to date with forecasts
  • Weather Warnings
  • Monitoring Flood Risk
  • Get Ready for Winter Campaign
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  • Naming Storms
  • What will winter 2015/16 bring?
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Keeping up to date with forecasts

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Keeping up to date with forecasts

Importance of keeping up to date:

  • allows us to be proactive rather than reactive
  • gives us a early heads
  • up to what is coming
  • enables us to prepare and put plans into place
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Keeping up to date with forecasts Sources of information

TV & Radio App Website Social Media

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Monitoring Weather Warnings

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TV Met office App Website

Monitoring Weather Warnings

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Monitoring Weather Warnings

Are you a CAT1 or 2 responder? If so, sign up to receive warnings through Hazard Manager (instructions available)

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Monitoring Weather Warnings

If you’re not sign up to receive warnings through the Met Office website

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Understanding Warnings

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Understanding Warnings

Area covered

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Issue and Validity time

Understanding Warnings

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Warning text

Understanding Warnings

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Chief Forecasters’ Assessment

Understanding Warnings

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Impact Matrix

Understanding Warnings

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Understanding Warnings

  • Considerations

Location

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Understanding Warnings

  • Considerations

Time of year

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Understanding Warnings

  • Considerations

Time of day

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Understanding Warnings

  • Likelihood

Forecast Uncertainty

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Low Impacts

Understanding Warnings

  • Impacts
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Medium Impacts

Understanding Warnings

  • Impacts
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High Impacts

Understanding Warnings

  • Impacts
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  • Access the latest weather

forecast

  • Expect some minor delays
  • Outdoor events may be

disrupted or cancelled Examples:

  • Localised flooding of low
  • lying land
  • Some branches or trees brought down
  • Snow lying on roads and pavements but

road network generally open

Yellow Warning – Be Aware

Understanding Warnings

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  • Take precautions where

possible

  • Access the latest weather

forecast

  • Some disruption to normal

daily routines Examples:

  • Some flooding of property and transport

links

  • Tree damage & minor structural damage
  • Widespread snow with a number of roads

closed

Amber Warning – Be prepared

Understanding Warnings

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  • Remain Extra Vigilant
  • Follow orders and any

advice given by authorities

  • Access the latest weather

forecast

  • Significant disruption to normal daily routines

Examples:

  • Widespread flooding
  • Widespread structural damage
  • Widespread deep snow with many roads

closed

Red Warning – Take Action

Understanding Warnings

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Monitoring Flood Risk

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Monitoring Flood risk

Flood Risk map

http://apps.environment

  • agency.gov.uk/flood/3days/125305.aspx
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Monitoring Flood Warnings

Flood Alerts and Warnings

Flood Alerts & Warnings Live Flood Warning Map

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Get Ready For Winter

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  • A campaign by a partnership
  • f over 20 agencies to help

individuals, families and communities to prepare for winter and offer advice on what to do during severe weather.

  • Hosted on the Met Office

website at

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/get

  • ready
  • for
  • winter

Get Ready for Winter

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Communities

Practical steps you can take to support your community in preparing for winter weather.

Get Ready for Winter

Keep warm, Keep well

There are some practical steps that you can take to help keep you warm and healthy throughout the winter months.

Protect my home

There are certain practical steps that you can take to protect your home from winter weather.

Travel

Preparing for the impacts of severe weather on road, rail and air travel is not just the responsibility of the transport operators. We can all help to make their job easier when winter does its worst

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Naming Storms

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  • Pilot project with Met

Éireann

  • Provide a single authoritative naming system for

storms affecting the UK and Ireland

  • Help raise awareness of severe weather
  • Named when wind is likely to lead to medium or

high impacts

  • Twitter campaign
  • #

nameourstorms

Naming Storms

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Naming Storms

Alphabetical – alternating male and female

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Questions and Answers