site.btaBulgaria Joins Meteoalarm System 15 Years Ago, on World Meteorological Day

Bulgaria joined the European Weather Alert System Meteoalarm on March 23, 2010.

March 23 is celebrated as World Meteorological Day.

Meteoalarm produces a color map on which the degree of danger of various meteorological phenomena is indicated by four colors. The warnings are for various hazardous weather phenomena - precipitation and wind above a certain limit, dangerous temperatures to people's health, icing, poor visibility, or any weather events important for the population that could cause damage and difficulties in everyday life.

The Meteoalarm system began operating in Europe in 1997 on France’s proposal and is now part of the international cooperation of European meteorological services.

On September 1 2022 Bulgaria, upgraded the system to provide information of hazardous events in all 265 municipalities of the country. Until then, this was possible for the country's 28 regions only.