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Actual news headline.

“UK weather: Snow on the way with yellow warning for large parts of England and Wales“

I wish the would come up with another name for it.

... Yellow? Is that supposed to be evocative of street lights and red, yellow and green?

IanKennedy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:42 am Actual news headline.

“UK weather: Snow on the way with yellow warning for large parts of England and Wales“

I wish the would come up with another name for it.

Middle snow?

I'm pretty sure we have Amber, Yellow and Red, although possibly in a different order.

IanKennedy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:22 pm I'm pretty sure we have Amber, Yellow and Red, although possibly in a different order.

Aren't those terrorism warnings?

Nutso wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:34 pm

IanKennedy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:22 pm I'm pretty sure we have Amber, Yellow and Red, although possibly in a different order.

Aren't those terrorism warnings?

In the US, at least, an Amber Alert is a missing child. Yellow and red alerts are conditions of danger aboard Starfleet starships.

They're weather warnings. They may also be used for terrorism, but I think that's different scale. Here's a guide for weather:



So it goes Yellow, Amber and then Red. That kinda made sense as amber is a mix of yellow and red (ie orange).

As for terrorism, we have threat levels:

Threat levels
There are 5 levels of threat:

low - an attack is highly unlikely
moderate - an attack is possible but not likely
substantial - an attack is likely
severe - an attack is highly likely
critical - an attack is highly likely in the near future

Officially British traffic lights go Green, Amber, Red. There used to be a public information film about not being an "Amber Gambler", in other words only Green means go, everything else means stop.