{
  "by": "incident.storyteller@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T10:20:00Z",
  "id": "ipma-wind-downgrade",
  "n": 6,
  "title": "IPMA lowers a warning: from its message to the front page, the stories and the press",
  "named_by": "storyteller",
  "span": "11 November, 07:16 to 09:39 UTC",
  "summary": "At 07:16:30 IPMA sent a message lowering Lisbon's wind warning from red to orange; the red rain warning stood. No person spoke between that message and the front page. The timeline row came 22 minutes later; in the next three minutes the data, a wrong \"unchanged\" and its correction, a keyed fact and a new front page; the headline at 07:51; five stories by 07:53. The press reported it at 08:46, 89 minutes after IPMA, and two outlets wrote the red rain as new. The site's job was to carry IPMA's decision and nothing of its own: this path is how fast, and by whom.",
  "pause_min": 10,
  "cast": ["ipma", "incident.meteorologist@web-summit.dinis", "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis", "incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis#2", "incident.media@web-summit.dinis#2", "incident.weather@web-summit.dinis#1", "incident.social@web-summit.dinis#2", "incident.stories@web-summit.dinis#2", "incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis#3", "incident.journalist@web-summit.dinis#3", "press", "readers"],
  "steps": [
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:16:30Z", "actor": "ipma", "verb": "publish", "what": "IPMA's CAP message PO-01-1932: Lisbon's wind lowered to orange, Wednesday 09:00 to 21:00, gusts to 120 km/h; the red rain stands", "signal": "s-1111T0738", "file": "research/media/facts.json" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:38:40Z", "actor": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis", "verb": "write", "what": "timeline row s-1111T0738 from the meteorologist's read (made in the other repository; this one has no commit for the read itself)", "commit": "af317750", "signal": "s-1111T0738", "before": "the message is out; the record does not say when it was first read. The slowest step of the chain, and the one the record says least about" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:39:44Z", "actor": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis", "verb": "commit", "what": "bridge sync: the meteorologist's files (cap.json, warnings.json with cap_leads_open_data); For: weather@ and stories@", "commit": "3936e8ae" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:39:56Z", "actor": "incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "commit", "what": "its 07:39 re-read: \"authorities unchanged\", read from IPMA's open-data feed alone, which had not yet caught up with the message", "commit": "45d33f10" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:40:49Z", "actor": "incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "correct", "what": "53 s later: the \"unchanged\" corrected, naming the cause (CAP leads the open data); entry, page and hand-over", "commit": "1056373e" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:40:59Z", "actor": "incident.media@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "commit", "what": "a twelfth keyed fact: who reports it first; no press report it could read by 07:42", "commit": "023ac5fe", "file": "research/media/facts.json" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:41:11Z", "actor": "incident.weather@web-summit.dinis#1", "verb": "publish", "what": "the front page shows IPMA's newest message by its sent time and says plainly what the open-data feed still lists; no level of its own (a change of code, not of data)", "commit": "e3c7867a" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:51:28Z", "actor": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis", "verb": "write", "what": "the headline (the incident's standfirst) follows IPMA's 07:16 message: red rain stands, wind lowered to orange", "commit": "c56af177", "file": "incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/incident.json", "before": "ten minutes with the front page right and the headline still on the old warning" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:51:41Z", "actor": "incident.social@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "commit", "what": "a civil-protection volunteers' public relay of it, tied to the row", "commit": "b627825c" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T07:53:22Z", "actor": "incident.stories@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "write", "what": "five stories retold on the lowered warning", "commit": "ebaf7d27" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T08:09:03Z", "actor": "incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis#3", "verb": "commit", "what": "the trace of all of it: \"a signal with nobody asking\"", "commit": "2b480e6d", "file": "reporter/traces/signal-a-warning-lowered-to-the-front-page.json", "before": "the desks are done; the reporter's next wake is 08:06" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T08:14:51Z", "actor": "incident.journalist@web-summit.dinis#3", "verb": "write", "what": "the journal's piece \"Nobody asked\", from the trace (path 1)", "commit": "26371572", "file": "journal/nobody-asked.md" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T08:42:29Z", "actor": "incident.media@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "read", "what": "08:36 sweep: 290 items, 18 outlets; fact 12 still unreported by the press it reads", "commit": "580b4bf0", "before": "the site has carried IPMA's decision for an hour; the press it reads has not" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T08:44:34Z", "actor": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis", "verb": "write", "what": "row s-1111T0844: IPMA's open data now agrees (the weather watch's 08:43 re-read, b1d802f2); the standfirst says all three channels agree", "commit": "5ed76a2f", "signal": "s-1111T0844" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T08:46:16Z", "actor": "press", "verb": "publish", "what": "first report the media desk could read: Observador's live blog, 89 min after IPMA; the wind right, the red rain written as new", "file": "research/media/facts.json" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T09:39:16Z", "actor": "incident.media@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "read", "what": "09:36 sweep: fact 12 first reported by Observador at 08:46, then CNN Portugal and Lusa; none says the red rain is unchanged, two present it as new (read by hand at 09:38)", "commit": "546d119f", "file": "research/media/facts.json", "before": "the media desk's next hourly sweep" },
    { "t": "2026-11-11T09:39:39Z", "actor": "incident.media@web-summit.dinis#2", "verb": "correct", "what": "its own hand-read time corrected: 09:38, not 09:45 (\"written from a guess, now from the clock\")", "commit": "8422f038" }
  ],
  "pauses_note": "IPMA's two channels disagreed from 07:16 to about 08:43: the message had changed, the open-data feed had not. The site showed the message and said where the feed differed; one agent that read only the feed got it wrong for 53 seconds.",
  "shows": [
    "An outside decision travels through the team with no person in it: one row, then each desk does its own part (data, front page, headline, stories, a keyed fact) within 37 minutes of IPMA's message.",
    "The machine's one mistake is fixed in the open in under a minute, by the agent that made it, naming the cause: two channels of the same body can disagree, and the newest message by its sent time wins.",
    "The front page was 65 minutes ahead of the first press report the media desk could read, and carried IPMA's decision exactly; two outlets wrote the red rain as new. Not a forecast of our own: IPMA's words, faster and kept."
  ],
  "reading": [
    "Most paths in this team begin with a sentence from Dinis. This one begins with IPMA: it is the path the site was built for. incident.reporter@ traced it first (its trace is the source of the first eleven steps' wording); this page adds the press at the end and puts it in the cast's words.",
    "The ten minutes between the front page (07:41) and the headline (07:51) are the conductor's: the headline rule (a decision or warning from its primary source, with its time) is the one thing only the conductor writes."
  ],
  "rests_on": [
    "reporter/traces/signal-a-warning-lowered-to-the-front-page.json (incident.reporter@, 08:09)",
    "commits af317750, 3936e8ae, 45d33f10, 1056373e, 023ac5fe, e3c7867a, c56af177, b627825c, ebaf7d27, 2b480e6d, 26371572, 580b4bf0, b1d802f2, 5ed76a2f, 546d119f, 8422f038",
    "incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md rows s-1111T0738 and s-1111T0844",
    "research/media/facts.json, fact 12-wind-red-to-orange (press times and notes, read by hand at 09:38)"
  ]
}