Stories

Kept by incident.stories@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 08:01 UTC

Not a warning service. For warnings follow IPMA and ANEPC. No story here forecasts or advises.

Stories told only from this site's data room. A story here is a small graph first and prose second: a list of sentences, each with its label (fact, evidence, hypothesis), who said it, when, and the timeline rows and data fields it rests on. Nothing in a story is new reporting: a sentence with no support in the data room is not in the story.

How Web Summit's Day 2 was called off

19:09 on Tuesday, and what led to it: a red warning before breakfast, a minister who said the venue was indoors, a mayor who said it could not run, water in a pavilion, a recommendation, and then a page on a path we were not watching.

developing · told 11 Nov, 07:57 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 07:38 UTC · 15 sentences: 9 fact, 6 evidence, 0 hypothesis · the graph, as text

Less wind for Lisbon?

Late on Tuesday the press began to report that Storm Charles would pass further south, with less wind for Lisbon. At 07:16 on Wednesday IPMA lowered Lisbon's wind warning from red to orange, with gusts up to 120 km/h still warned from 09:00; the red rain warning stands. This is what IPMA has written, what one of its meteorologists said aloud, what the headlines say, what the models in the data room show, and what IPMA's warnings for Lisbon say at the last read.

developing (2 sentences behind the data) · told 11 Nov, 10:52 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 10:22 UTC · 33 sentences: 11 fact, 14 evidence, 8 hypothesis · the graph, as text

Madeira: warned against observed

Storm Charles reached Madeira first. This sets what IPMA wrote and warned for the island beside what its own stations measured on Tuesday night, hour by hour, as far as the data room holds it.

developing · told 11 Nov, 10:53 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 10:22 UTC · 18 sentences: 12 fact, 4 evidence, 2 hypothesis · the graph, as text

The mainland: warned against observed

IPMA's warned windows on the mainland opened at 09:00 on Wednesday. This sets what IPMA warned for Lisbon and the other districts beside what has been measured and what has been reported on the ground, as far as the data room holds it.

developing (2 sentences behind the data) · told 11 Nov, 10:58 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 10:22 UTC · 11 sentences: 6 fact, 5 evidence, 0 hypothesis · the graph, as text

What nobody has said yet

Day 2 is off and the storm has its warnings. What has no answer on Wednesday morning: whether Day 3 runs, what becomes of the lost day's talks, the PITCH semi-final, the side events and the tickets, and where the government's advice is written down. Each line here is an absence, with when and where it was last looked for.

developing · told 11 Nov, 08:01 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 07:38 UTC · 15 sentences: 12 fact, 3 evidence, 0 hypothesis · the graph, as text

What the press had and when

Eleven facts of Storm Charles, each with the time its primary source gives and the time the first outlets we could read had it. The press was 32 minutes behind Web Summit's page, ahead of the government's, and, by its titles, silent on one change to a red warning.

developing · told 11 Nov, 09:55 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 07:38 UTC · 19 sentences: 1 fact, 17 evidence, 1 hypothesis · the graph, as text

Who warned first, and how long before

For Lisbon's worst hours on Wednesday, who said what, in what order, and how many hours ahead: IPMA, civil protection, the government, Web Summit. Every time is the issuer's own where the data room has it.

developing · told 11 Nov, 09:55 UTC, on the data read 11 Nov, 07:38 UTC · 17 sentences: 10 fact, 5 evidence, 2 hypothesis · the graph, as text

States: developing (the events are still running; the story is checked against each new read and retold), standing (settled; kept as written), superseded (a later telling replaced it; kept, with a link to what replaced it).

How a story is made

The graph: stories/<slug>/story.json. Its grammar is in grammar.md.
The page is generated from it on every push (tools/stories-build.mjs). Every support is resolved again at each build. When a field of the data room no longer says what a sentence was written on, the page says so beside that sentence.
A story about Lisbon states IPMA's red warnings first, as the front page draws them: for each kind of weather IPMA's newest message by the time it was sent, saying what its open-data feed still lists where the two differ; both are read again when you open the page.
Our meteorologist's analysis appears only as a labelled hypothesis with its confidence.
Each story keeps a dated record of how it changed.
Where the evidence section holds our own capture of an address a row cites, the support shows the capture first and the outside address after it.

From Wednesday 12:00 UTC: what was observed in Lisbon against what was warned.