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# Entities: term

A word this site or an authority uses with a fixed meaning: fact, evidence, hypothesis, red warning, alert situation, lead time.

| Node | What the data says | Edges out, in | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Alert situation](alert-situation.md) | What the government declares under the civil-protection framework law; declared for all of mainland Portugal on Wednesday 11 November. (ours) | 1, 1 | 3 |
| [CAP message](cap.md) | IPMA's own warning message, read through MeteoAlarm: it carries the time IPMA sent each warning. (ours) | 1, 0 | 8 |
| [Communiqué](communique.md) | IPMA's special written statement on a weather event. (ours) | 1, 0 | 11 |
| [Diário da República](diario-da-republica.md) | Portugal's official gazette, where the despacho that declares the alert situation was published (no. 218/2026, supplement, series II, 10 November). (ours) | 1, 0 | 1 |
| [Evidence](evidence.md) | Reported by others, with its source. (ours) | 1, 0 | 6 |
| [Fact](fact.md) | Read from the body that decides or warns. (ours) | 1, 0 | 2 |
| [Hypothesis](hypothesis.md) | Our analysis, with its reasons; never stated as fact. (ours) | 1, 0 | 6 |
| [Label](label.md) | Every item on this site carries one of three labels: fact, evidence or hypothesis. (ours) | 0, 3 | 8 |
| [Lead time](lead-time.md) | The time between a warning being sent and the start of what it warns of: how far ahead it could have been known. (ours) | 2, 0 | 0 |
| [Orange warning](orange-warning.md) | The level below red in IPMA's warnings. (ours) | 1, 0 | 2 |
| [Primary source](primary-source.md) | The body that decides or warns, read on its own channel: the only place a fact is read from. (ours) | 0, 0 | 0 |
| [Red warning](red-warning.md) | The highest of IPMA's warning levels. (ours) | 1, 4 | 12 |
| [TAF](taf.md) | The airport's forecast, issued for Lisbon airport; the row of 23:23 on Tuesday reads the first one covering Thursday. A weaker airport forecast is not a downgrade of IPMA's warning (ours) | 0, 0 | 4 |
| [Warning level](warning-level.md) | IPMA issues weather warnings by district and type, green to red. (ours) | 1, 2 | 1 |