BoundLabel to AdvisoryContainer notes

You can also bind a Px BoundLabel widget to the AdvisoryContainer, to display the most urgent, severe, certain, or recent weather advisory, using special BFormat syntax. This syntax is.

%mostUrgent.weatherSummary% or %mostSevere.weatherSummary% or  %mostCertain.weatherSummary% or  %mostRecent.weatherSummary%

The BoundLabel will display the advisory name, such as “Flood Warning” or “Wind Advisory”.

NOTE: To avoid BFormat errors when advisories do not exist, append an “alternate” variable onto the BFormat syntax examples listed above. For example, you can use the following:%mostUrgent.weatherSummary.value?parent.weatherSummary.value% This will display either the most certain advisory—or if no advisories exist, the current weather summary.

About the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

The NWS uses the “Common Alerting Protocol” (CAP) in advisory messages, noting “urgency”, “severity”, and “certainty”. Urgency relates to “time available to prepare”, severity to “intensity of impact”, and certainty to “confidence in the observation or prediction”.

At the time of this document, more details about CAP in general can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Alerting_Protocol
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.pdf

BoundLabel to AdvisoryContainer notes

About the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

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