Azure Maps: Weather alerts API to get tropical storms alerts in the Philippines?

Yaron Wartski 5 Reputation points
2023-04-19T13:38:02.54+00:00

How do I use Weather API to get tropical storms alerts in the Philippines?

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  1. ErikLindeman 286 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-04-21T16:59:32.43+00:00

    As an alternative to the Severe Weather Alert API, you can also use the Azure Maps Tropical Storm Forecast API Get Tropical Storm Forecast or the Azure Maps Active Tropical Storms API Get Tropical Storm Active if you are only interested in tropical storm info for a given area.

    Updated answer addressing the questions.

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  2. rbrundritt 20,931 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2023-04-20T15:44:13.4766667+00:00

    Just to add some clarity and additional details:

    • Using the query above you would simply pass in a coordinate for a location in the Philippines and it will tell you if there are any weather alerts in the area.
    • Azure Maps v1 weather service is powered by AccuWeather. I believe AccuWeather gets the alert information for the Philippines from the "Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration" https://bagong.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/index.php

    @LeelaRajeshSayana-MSFT Can you put your comment in as the answer.

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  3. LeelaRajeshSayana-MSFT 17,771 Reputation points Moderator
    2023-04-19T16:10:26.12+00:00

    Hi @Yaron Wartski Greetings! Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Thank you for posting your question here.

    The Azure Maps API documentation provides details on how to Request severe weather alerts.

    Here is an API call you can use to get severe weather alerts for a given location coordinates.

    https://atlas.microsoft.com/weather/severe/alerts/json?api-version=1.0&query=41.161079,-104.805450&subscription-key={Your-Azure-Maps-Subscription-key}
    
    

    Can you review the documentation and see if this addresses the use case you are looking for? Please let us know if you have any additional questions or need further clarification.

    Thank you.

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