The German Weather Service (DWD) launched the nationwide natural hazard portal on April 11. Citizens can now use the new platform to find out about impending natural hazards such as storms, floods or storm surges in their area in real time. The DWD wants to use this to warn and sensitize the population even better in the face of increasing weather extremes.
The portal was developed under the leadership of the DWD, in close cooperation with the federal states, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) and the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). For the first time, it bundles all early warnings and precautionary information on weather-related natural hazards in Germany at a central location.
In the first stage of expansion, the portal already integrates weather warnings, flood information via the cross-state flood portal (LHP), storm surge warnings from the BSH and disaster control reports via the Modular Warning System (MoWaS). In the long term, further information, for example on ozone pollution or the risk of forest fires, is to be added.
The legal basis for the new service was created by an amendment to the DWD Act in 2024.
The natural hazard portal is now available here.
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