Comments on: Severe Weather Alerts By RSS, SMS, Or Email

By: Jason Emerick

Jason Emerick — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:44:53 +0000

This is something I may look into adding to YWeather when I get a chance to look into it further.

I will keep you updated of any new additions to YWeather.

Jason Emerick

By: Gil Emery

Gil Emery — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:59:06 +0000

There are services such as

http://www.stormnow.com/

That allow you to register what alerts you want to recieve and the counties/states that you wish to recieve them for.

Although I have not used this one recently, a few years ago I did have this service and was very happy with what they provided.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:00:31 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’m going to check with the local weather centers and see if they know anything also.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:01:24 +0000

I should dabble in this more but haven’t found the time yet.

I DO have National Hurricane Center in Viigo. Hourly Atlantic cyclone updates: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index-at.xml

I think there were a bunch of other RSS feeds at NHC (and NOAA).

Another thought: Check if your locale has an alert system (my City does, and it SMS’s citizens who sign up, for weather terrorism etc.). Since 9-11 and Katrina there has been tons of federal funds to Cities and Counties and States to set these sorts of systems up. If there isn’t a local one (for USA readers of course), you should be asking your politicians why you don’t have one!!!