Europe-wide weather alarm system launched

[Marco]

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2368561720070323

With climate change set to bring ever more frequent storms, floods and
natural disasters, 21 European countries have created a unified weather
alert system, its creators said on Friday.

Meteoalarm, launched on Friday at the end of a week-long meteorological
conference in Madrid, provides simple icon-based information on severe
weather in 17 languages from a single web page, www.meteoalarm.eu .

"Our job is to save lives and goods, and this project was needed in
Europe," Tomas Molina, chairman of the International Association of
Broadcast Meteorology, told a news conference.

The new system should be simple and credible, so that on the rare
occasions there is a red alert people will take it seriously, its
backers said.