dcmac214 wrote:
Rain, lightning, winds to 35-40mph we take in stride same as sunny days.
What I'd be interested in is warnings for severe weather like flash flood, tornado, hail, high wind, &c, that follow me when I've got the gps thingie on. I get that automatically from our local TV station but it's only for our home region.
I can speak only for the iPhone, but there are several:
Storm allows you set one location to monitor (bummer.. It's predicessor allowed several), or run it in GPS "Follow Me" mode. I have lightening mapping activated on this as well and it seems pretty accurate. It's sure had a good test run in OK and TX lately.
Weather Radio No maps, no fancy anything. This is strictly an EAS notification app that allows at least 5 set locations of your choice, PLUS GPS in "Follow Me" mode. Most of my monitoring is West coast, but I also watch Dallas, so this has been lighting up like a xmas tree for weeks. The developer of this app sat on an EAS advisory committee with me a few years ago. He was part of the mobile group, and I was a broadcaster, but he is serious about what he's doing. Also when I thought I wasn't picking up ALL the NWS issued alerts, they wouldn't leave me alone until we were all satisfied that it was running OK. I like that..
I have about 32 other Wx apps: EAS alerting, radar only, wind, lightening, etc. But these two really take care of most of it short of real tornado tracking doppler radar.
BTW- These GPS enabled apps are nowhere near as power hungry as in the past. Allot of their positioning come from the cell network that it is always pinging anyway.
