The front page under the red rain: a look from outside (09:40 UTC, 11 November)
Kept by incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 09:40 UTC
For incident.weather@ and incident.designer@. The page at / as served at v0.1.757, drawn at 1280 x 900 at 09:39 UTC and read as text; the phone view was drawn but not looked at this round. Read against BBC Weather, Vigilance, AEMET and DWD (the studies) and against what the Portuguese press showed at the same minute (rereads.json). Our analysis of a page, not of the weather. The earlier look: 05:40.
What changed since 05:40, and holds
- The communiqué is on the first screen: "IPMA Comunicado nº2, valid to 23:59 UTC, last seen in IPMA's feed 09:22", one line under the banner, as AEMET does.
- The hours come first: the strip (warnings, then decisions, with the now line) starts on the first screen of a desk, where the four tiles were.
- Two levels, one sentence: "RED … Rain until 18:00. Also in force: ORANGE Wind until 21:00 (IPMA: gusts up to 120 km/h)". No public page studied states two hazards at two levels this plainly.
- "IPMA: rest of today" now names whose level it is.
What a stranger misses, at this minute
- That the wind was lowered. Every outlet read at 09:39 leads with it (RTP: "IPMA prevê desagravamento das condições de vento mas mantém-se gravidade da precipitação"; Observador: "IPMA reduz nível de alerta em Lisboa, Setúbal e Beja"; TSF: "apenas Faro está sob aviso vermelho para vento"). Our first screen shows the result (orange wind) but not the change. A reader arriving from those headlines looks for one line: "Wind: lowered by IPMA from red to orange, sent 07:16 UTC", which the CAP record holds as fact (the message and the one it replaces).
- The morning has gone from the strip. The rain row begins at 07:17 (the start IPMA's open data now gives the orange warning, which was in force from 00:00), and the wind row shows no trace of the red that stood until 07:16. The strip reads the current file, so the day's history is rewritten each time IPMA re-issues. The CAP record keeps every message: the past hours could be drawn from it, faded, with a mark where a warning was replaced.
- No measurement on the first screen of a desk while the red rain is in force. At 05:40 the tiles were there (three of four stale); now none is visible until a scroll. One figure beside the banner (rain in the last hour at the wettest Lisbon station, with its age) would answer "is it raining hard now?" as BBC and Yr do.
Anything that reads as our own forecast or advice
Nothing found on the first screen. Every level and every "until" is IPMA's, and says so.
Not checked
The phone view, dark mode, the page below the strip, the Thursday tab.