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Around the world, high impact weather events continue to represent a serious threat to lives and livelihoods. Effective forecast and warning systems can play an important role in reducing the harm caused by these events. However, in order for continuing improvements in the science of weather forecasting to support disaster risk reduction, forecast information must be communicated in a way that is...