🛟Public safety

four warning systems live at once, and the distance between the warning and the water is different in every one

Four boards, four different amounts of time left, and that is the whole job today. Over coastal Odisha and north Andhra Pradesh the lead time is still in hand and it is the largest one on the board: a red warning for four districts and a landfall dated to the morning of Sep 23, which is long enough to open shelters and move people rather than rescue them. In eastern Japan the lead time is spent — about 1.6 million were reached by advisories before the water, and the work has collapsed to search in landslide zones and slope watch on ground that is still draining. Off south-west Mexico the calls are early and made on a track rather than a landfall: with the core staying offshore, the decisions are surf, evacuation of low ground and mudslide watch against 4 to 8 inches, locally 12. In the American interior 41 flood warnings are already out on saturated soil and a moderate risk builds over eastern New Mexico for Wednesday, which is a county-road closure decided before a driver reaches the crossing. And in the Al-Baha highlands a red run continues to about Sep 25 with near-zero visibility in dust and rain. (Handled with care.)

carried on 42 of the last 68 editions — since Jul 18, the 10 most recent shown.