Heat waves occur in Europe. We know some useful methods to prevent heatstroke, but there is no doubt that it all starts with knowing when it is most dangerous to expose yourself to the sun. This is when our mobile can be very useful.
Here the AEMET, acronym for State Meteorological Agency, comes into play. And it is that this body, among its many tasks, issues alerts for high temperatures. It does this in different ways and its official app for Android is one of them.
First, download the AEMET app
Although there is an AEMET web page that offers a lot of meteorological data, the truth is that the most comfortable for receive mobile alerts
AEMET weather forecast
If you want to know where it will rain, if the winds are going to be strong or if adverse weather phenomena are expected in your municipality, the latest forecasts and official warnings from the National Meteorological Agency.
We must admit that its interface does not make it the best weather application for Android, but it offers other interesting incentives. See for example his geolocated organizationbeing able to add it manually or automatically by granting it the respective access.
Here you will find all kinds of information about the current weather and forecasts for the following days. Also useful facts about beachesvery popular on these dates when people often take the opportunity to get away from it all.
Activate temperature alerts in the AEMET app
The key to everything and for what finally we recommend the use of this application are the notifications in case of high temperatures. Well, its activation is very simple. It all starts from opening the drop-down menu at the top left of the app and go to the ‘Notifications’ section which appears there.
Once inside, you must ensure that the tab “Notices on” is checked. It will then be a question of choosing types of risks about which we want to be informed. You can choose between a yellow, orange and/or red alert. If you accept our advice, we will tell you to activate the orange and red alerts yes or yes.
Once done, you will receive alerts when temperatures are close to the alarm. In fact, you can configure the advance to receive the notice with a bar that appears in the aforementioned notifications section, being able to establish advances between 30 minutes and 24 hours.
On another side, We also find the possibility of receiving other notices in other emergency situations climatic, valid at any time of the year and not only in summer. Without leaving this notification panel, a list called “Atmospheric phenomena” appears which allows you to activate warnings for things such as avalanches, minimum temperatures, wind, snowfall and more.
Needless to say, this app also has It is one of the most reliable and accurate.. Unsurprisingly, it is the main weather agency in our country and its data is frequently updated.
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