Summary
International weather alerts are currently rendered with truncated or incorrect titles, mislabeled message languages, and China-specific metadata.
A live Coastal Flood Advisory returned by QWeather for Cupertino, California demonstrates the problem:
Coastal Flood Advisory issued August 9 at 9:43PM PDT until August 13 at 2:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA
The deployed WeatherKit endpoint transforms it into:
d August 9 at 9:43PM PDT until August 13 at 2:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA
The intended card title is:
Reproduction
Using a current international alert location:
latitude: 37.3230
longitude: -122.0322
language: en-US
Request:
https://weatherkit.pages.dev/api/v1/weatherAlerts?lang=en-US&ids=37.323,-122.0322
Representative deployed response:
{
"description": "d August 9 at 9:43PM PDT until August 13 at 2:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA",
"severity": "minor",
"urgency": "expected",
"certainty": "likely",
"source": "NWS San Francisco CA",
"messages": [
{
"language": "en-US",
"text": "* WHAT...Up to 1.6 ft of inundation above ground level is possible in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways..."
}
]
}The source QWeather record contains:
{
"senderName": "NWS San Francisco CA",
"eventType": {
"name": "Coastal Flood Advisory"
},
"urgency": "expected",
"severity": "minor",
"certainty": "likely",
"headline": "Coastal Flood Advisory issued August 9 at 9:43PM PDT until August 13 at 2:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA"
}At the time of testing, QWeather returned this alert for the Cupertino coordinates while the official NWS point query returned no active alert for the exact point:
https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point=37.323,-122.0322
The Cupertino case is therefore a reliable reproduction of the title-normalization defect while the alert remains active, but it may also indicate that QWeather matches a broader coastal region to the inland coordinate. Geographic matching should be investigated separately from title parsing.
Summary
International weather alerts are currently rendered with truncated or incorrect titles, mislabeled message languages, and China-specific metadata.
A live
Coastal Flood Advisoryreturned by QWeather for Cupertino, California demonstrates the problem:The deployed WeatherKit endpoint transforms it into:
The intended card title is:
Reproduction
Using a current international alert location:
Request:
Representative deployed response:
{ "description": "d August 9 at 9:43PM PDT until August 13 at 2:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA", "severity": "minor", "urgency": "expected", "certainty": "likely", "source": "NWS San Francisco CA", "messages": [ { "language": "en-US", "text": "* WHAT...Up to 1.6 ft of inundation above ground level is possible in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways..." } ] }The source QWeather record contains:
{ "senderName": "NWS San Francisco CA", "eventType": { "name": "Coastal Flood Advisory" }, "urgency": "expected", "severity": "minor", "certainty": "likely", "headline": "Coastal Flood Advisory issued August 9 at 9:43PM PDT until August 13 at 2:00AM PDT by NWS San Francisco CA" }At the time of testing, QWeather returned this alert for the Cupertino coordinates while the official NWS point query returned no active alert for the exact point:
The Cupertino case is therefore a reliable reproduction of the title-normalization defect while the alert remains active, but it may also indicate that QWeather matches a broader coastal region to the inland coordinate. Geographic matching should be investigated separately from title parsing.