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What's the difference between weather warnings and watches? What is an advisory? Here are weather safety terms you need to know.
Different types of alerts from the National Weather Service — from advisories to watches and warnings — mean different things and call for different actions from the public to keep safe.
The National Weather Service shares alerts as it warns of potential risks from thunderstorms, flooding, tornadoes and other dangers. But when forecasters issue a watch or a warning for a specific ...
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A weather warning generally refers to an alert issued by a meteorological agency to warn citizens of approaching dangerous weather.A weather watch, on the other hand, typically refers to an alert issued to indicate that conditions are favorable for the development of dangerous weather patterns, although the dangerous weather conditions themselves are not currently present.
A watch or warning bearing the phrase is referred to as a PDS watch or PDS warning. First used by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), a national guidance center of the National Weather Service, for tornado watches, the phrase was later applied to other severe weather watches and warnings by the agency's regional
For millions of us, winter weather has already started. As the winds howl, the snow flies and the temperatures drop, the National Weather Service issues various levels of alerts for wintry weather ...
An extreme cold watch is a weather watch issued by the United States' National Weather Service (NWS) to inform the public that "dangerously cold air, with or without wind, is possible." The extreme cold watch is a 'step' below the "extreme cold warning." [1] As of 1 October 2024, the NWS replaced the "wind chill watch" with the "extreme cold ...