Forecast Poland

Warnings in force — ostrzeżenia

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The three degrees

1 Yellow. Conditions that are dangerous for some activities and can cause damage. Be aware.

2 Orange. Losses of property and danger to life are likely. Be prepared.

3 Red. Very large losses and a real threat to life. Take action.

These are IMGW's own definitions and IMGW's own colours. The map is coloured by the highest degree in force anywhere in each voivodeship, which is a summary — the warnings themselves are issued per powiat, and the table gives the count.

How a powiat becomes a voivodeship here. Each warning carries a list of TERYT codes — Poland's official territorial register. A powiat code's first two digits are its voivodeship: 02 is dolnośląskie, 32 is zachodniopomorskie, and the even numbers between them run in Polish alphabetical order. That is the whole mapping, and it is exact rather than a geometric guess.

Hydrological advisories — mostly standing drought notices with no end date — are listed but not counted as alerts and not drawn on the map. There are usually about ninety of them, and mixing them into the 1–2–3 scale everybody reads as urgency would be misleading.

All warnings and advisories

DegreeEventValid VoivodeshipsText
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This is not an official warning service. Forecast Poland re-publishes IMGW's open data and can be stale, incomplete or wrong. The authoritative source is meteo.imgw.pl for meteorological warnings and hydro.imgw.pl for hydrological ones, and in an emergency the Polish alert system (RCB) sends to your phone.