High Impact Weather Warnings are one of the basic public services for the wellbeing of the population of Switzerland. The Federal Law on Meteorology and Climatology states that the Swiss Confederation should issue warnings in case of dangerous weather conditions. This important task has been given to the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss.
High impact weather and other warnings – eg. frost or road warnings – are transmitted by means of all relevant communication channels such as telephone, internet, e-Mail and mobile phones to ensure that all civil protection organisations, the media and a growing part of the general public can be directly provided with the warnings issued by MeteoSwiss.