Your Area

Your Area shows what is happening around one place you choose.

Setting a place

Type a place name, address, postcode, or coordinates as lat, lon. The search runs in your browser against OpenStreetMap's Nominatim. Then pick a radius from 10 km to 2000 km. The default is 25 km.

What it shows

• The forecast for the next 24 hours from MET Norway: now, the day's range, rain, and every third hour on your own clock.
• Nearby cameras, where EHW has any.
• Events in range: a total, how many are act-worthy (see Reading an alert), a breakdown by category, and the five most severe groups.

Your location

When the map loads, your browser may ask for your location. EHW asks for a low-accuracy fix and uses it for two things only: to centre the map when you have not set a place, and as the point for a "near me" alert. It is not stored.

What is stored

• Your place and radius are kept in your browser's local storage, so they survive a reload. They are never tied to an account.
• To find nearby events, the coordinates are sent to the server with the request. The server's logs strip query strings, so they are not recorded.
• The forecast request is rounded to two decimal places, about 1 km, before it leaves EHW for MET Norway.