Weather+ · A Bhalai social-impact initiative

Weather+ Impact

Warnings that reach people before the weather does.

Free weather alerts, worldwide, tuned to how weather affects each subscriber's work and family - with an impact record we publish only as it is verified.

Weather+ - sun, storm cloud and alert signal over fields and sea
The evidence

Early warnings are among the best investments on earth.

Weather+ is new, so its own numbers start at zero - honestly. The case for building it is not new at all:

Global Commission on Adaptation, 2019 · via WMO

24 hours can cut damage ~30%

Just 24 hours' warning of a coming storm or heatwave can cut the ensuing damage by 30 per cent - and US$800 million spent on early warning systems in developing countries would avoid losses of US$3 - 16 billion per year.

World Bank, 2013 · Odisha

More than 10,000 → 38 deaths

Odisha's 1999 Super Cyclone killed more than 10,000 people. Fourteen years later, with days of advance warning and close to a million people evacuated, Cyclone Phailin's official death toll stood at 38.

Hess et al., J. Environ. Public Health, 2018

≈1,190 lives a year

A peer-reviewed evaluation of Ahmedabad's Heat Action Plan - South Asia's first, built around early warnings - estimated roughly 1,190 avoided deaths per year after the plan was introduced.

WMO · UN Early Warnings for All

1 in 3 unprotected (2022)

When the UN launched its Early Warnings for All initiative in 2022, one in three people globally - nearly twice as high a share in Africa - was still not covered by early warning services. Weather+ exists for that last mile.

Every figure above was verified against the named primary source before publication; we update this page if a source is revised.

Who we serve

Eighteen ways the sky decides a day

Every subscriber tells us how weather affects them - so alerts fit, and impact can be measured per community:

FarmersFishersCoastal families & studentsHill & mountain communitiesHeat-prone city residentsConstruction workersStreet vendorsDelivery ridersElderly careSchool administratorsLivestock & dairy keepersDisaster-response volunteersTrekking & tourismSalt pans, kilns & open-air workOutdoor event organisersSolar & wind operatorsFlood-prone neighbourhoodsExpecting & new mothers+ Other - tell us yours

From spray-day timing for a farmer to a go/no-go call for a fisher to a check-in reminder for someone caring for an elderly parent - the same forecast, put to work differently for each life it reaches.

Live impact board

The numbers, as they become real

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Subscribers

People enrolled across all use cases

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Alerts delivered

Digests and severe-event warnings sent

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Use cases served

Communities with active subscribers

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Countries reached

Weather+ is open worldwide

Counters publish automatically once the alert service is live and numbers are measured - Weather+ never shows an estimate as impact. Verified outcome stories will appear here after the first season of feedback.

How we measure

Impact is a claim. We treat it like one.

  • Per-community tracking. Subscribers, alerts and outcomes are recorded per use case - farmer impact is measured differently from fisher impact.
  • Seasonal check-ins. Short feedback questions to each community: did an alert change what you did? What did it save?
  • Only verified numbers. Survey-confirmed outcomes graduate to this page; everything else stays an internal working figure.
  • Honesty both ways. We publish the unsubscribe rate too - a warning service people leave is not working.
Join

Be the reason a warning arrives on time

Register yourself, or help someone who needs it most - a parent, a farm worker, a fishing family - enrol in one minute, in their language.

Ready to make goodness work?

Partner with Bhalai Foundation to build measurable impact through the Bhalai Loop - resources, action, impact, proof, renewal.

Or write to us - contact page · aditya@bhalai.org