Method and apparatus for verifying rain event warnings

An apparatus configured to determine a rain event warning confidence, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry and at least one memory including computer program code instructions, the computer program code instructions configured to, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to:

• receive an indication of the rain event warning for one or more locations;
• for a respective rain event warning, obtain sensor data in the form of one or more images depicting a weather condition within a region that includes the one or more locations with which the respective rain event warning is associated;
• evaluate the sensor data to determine whether the sensor data is indicative of rain;
• and
• determine the rain event warning confidence based at least in part on evaluation of the sensor data by causing the apparatus to:
• determine a ratio of a number of rain event warnings for which the one or more images depicting the weather condition within the region that includes the one or more locations with which the rain event warnings are associated are identified to not represent rain to a total number of rain event warnings, and
• wherein the total number of rain event warnings comprise a sum of a number of rain event warnings for which the one or more images depicting the weather condition within the region that includes the one or more locations with which the rain event warnings are associated are identified to represent rain and a number of rain event warnings for which the one or more images depicting the weather condition within the region that includes the one or more locations with which the rain event warnings are associated are identified to not represent rain;
• and
• cause the rain event warning to be published in an instance in which the rain event warning confidence satisfies a confidence threshold.

A computer program product configured to determine a rain event warning confidence, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer executable program code instructions therein, the computer executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions configured, upon execution, to:

• receive an indication of the rain event warning for one or more locations;
• for a respective rain event warning, obtain sensor data in the form of one or more images depicting a weather condition within a region that includes the location with which the respective rain event warning is associated;
• evaluate the sensor data to determine whether the sensor data is indicative of rain;
• and
• determine the rain event warning confidence based at least in part on evaluation of the sensor data by:
• determining a ratio of a number of rain event warnings for which the one or more images depicting the weather condition within the region that includes the one or more locations with which the rain event warnings are associated are identified to not represent rain to a total number of rain event warnings, and
• wherein the total number of rain event warnings comprise a sum of a number of rain event warnings for which the one or more images depicting the weather condition within the region that includes the one or more locations with which the rain event warnings are associated are identified to represent rain and a number of rain event warnings for which the one or more images depicting the weather condition within the region that includes the one or more locations with which the rain event warnings are associated are identified to not represent rain;
• and
• cause the rain event warning to be published in an instance in which the rain event warning confidence satisfies a confidence threshold.