check_weather_warnings
Get official DWD weather warnings for a place or coordinates, covering storm, snow, ice, heavy rain, thunderstorm and heat with level and validity. Use to check travel or driving safety.
Instructions
Returns the official DWD weather warnings in force for a place or coordinate — storm, snow, ice, heavy rain, thunderstorm, heat — with the DWD's own Warnstufe 1–4, the area, the local validity window and the official text unaltered. Use when someone asks about weather for a trip, whether it is safe to drive somewhere, or about storm, snow or ice warnings. Do NOT use for a plain forecast (not offered: warnings only) or for closures and jams (call check_autobahn_traffic). Says so when the data is not current instead of reporting an all-clear. Show the result's attribution line to the user.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | No | Latitude in WGS 84, e.g. 48.137. Use with lon when the caller already holds coordinates; otherwise use place. | |
| lon | No | Longitude in WGS 84, e.g. 11.576. Use with lat; otherwise use place. | |
| place | No | Where to look, as free text: a city ("München", "Munich"), a district or Kreis ("Kreis Fulda"), a Bundesland, a station or stop ("Hamburg Hbf"), a motorway ("A7"), or a street address with a house number ("Hauptstraße 12, 36037 Fulda"). Use this instead of coordinates whenever the person named a place. An address needs its town or postcode — a street and a number alone exist in many towns. Give either place OR lat+lon, never both. | |
| language | No | Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out because it has a default — the default is only the fallback when the language is genuinely unclear, and an English question answered in German is a wrong answer. Place names, station names and road numbers are never translated in either language; in English the German term is kept in parentheses so the person recognises it on signs and in local apps. | de |
| min_level | No | Lowest official DWD level to report, 0–4 (default 0, i.e. everything). The DWD's own names: 1 = Wetterwarnung, 2 = Markante Wetterwarnung, 3 = Unwetterwarnung, 4 = Warnung vor extremem Unwetter; 0 = Vorabinformation Unwetter, an advance notice that is not yet a Warnstufe. Raise it ONLY when the question names a level or a Warnstufe in so many words ("ab Stufe 3", "level 3 or higher", "nur Stufe 4"). Unwetter, Unwetterwarnung, severe and storm are the ordinary way to ask about bad weather, not a filter: leave it at 0 there — a level the caller filtered away is a warning the person is never told about. |