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Hazardous Weather Alert!

These days it seems like every time I open up the Pokemon Go app, it starts off with giving me a "Hazardous Weather Alert!" and makes me confirm that I'm safe. This happens in any and every weather, be it clear weather on a bright sunny day that couldn't be any closer to perfect weather, or it could be wind/rain/whatever.
Does this happen to anyone else?

The only reason I could think of for this is that I live in California and we have been having a ton of fires recently... but those fire's really aren't anywhere close to me.

Does this happen to anyone else? Are you in California? Or am I the only one who experiences this?

Asked by DuTogira6 years 4 months ago
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The thing that gets me is 'I am safe' is the only option. What if someone really did need help? Well I guess they probably wouldn't be signing into pokemon...

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by TTT 6 years 4 months ago

It seems to trigger whenever the weather app pokemon uses has any weather alert for your area.

So if there's a high UV index for the day - alert. Low air quality? Alert. etc...

I live in Ontario Canada, and same deal. Can go a while without an alert, but when I get them they come on every time I log in for weeks.

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Well that explains it. California is almost always on at least an L2 air quality alert so I guess I'll learn to live with it.

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They're much more common in the US than the UK. Any local weather alert for your S2 Level 11 cell will trigger it. I got one for a risk of mild frost.

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In California and have seen the warning the last couple days. At least it's not like when the first implemented the weather system. Weather alert ment NO weather bonus in game.

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When these advisories pop up on pokemon go, they are always triggered by a preexisting warning from the national weather service. In California, maybe yours are triggered by the wildfires. Where I live, the frequent weather warnings that pop up on sunny days are often for the threat of "wind gusts over 45 mph". If you go to a weather website, you'll see what prompted the pokemon alert

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It's definitely frustrating. What I wish the game offered was a setting to turn off those alerts. Or mute them for 24 hours, or something like that.

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While that could be nice, I feel like that's never going to happen. Or, if it does, itll come in a patch alongside the ability to disable the speedometer triggered "I'm not driving" alert

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