Tagged: India Meteorological Department

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Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) in the Indian Context

If you are interested in tracking weather alerts like I am, you should know about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). CAP is a standard XML formatted message that shares disaster/emergency alerts between creators, distributors, and receivers. For example, extreme rain alerts from IMD/Mausam (creator) to phones (receivers) through telecom service providers (distributors). It...

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Simple IMD Alerts

Table of Contents1 What I want2 IMD WMS Layer3 My plan4 Example pages5 Future improvements IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) has a district-level alert system. They give rain alerts for today and the next four days. They also have something called NowCast that shows the same alert level for now. Alerts are basically four...