WTP-GC wrote:
SCVJeff wrote:
There are any number of weather apps out there, but at the end of the day they all draw their forecasts and alerts from NWS.
That's not entirely correct, at least, not in my region. And I would suspect that my region is similar to others. With the emergence of personal weather stations, all the apps I've seen are able to retrieve data from those stations that are public access. For example, our local fire station has a weather station that puts out all current/active weather data plus alerts. Long term forecast might come from other sources, but certainly the NWS is not the provider of all data. If that were the case, then my WeatherBug app and weather channel app wouldn't always be in disagreement ;-)
But for the topic, I believe that people used to travel just fine long before the smartphone era. I think that with the abundance of technology we have at our fingertips these days, people have found more worriful things to consume themselves with.
Personal Weather Stations are all aggrated but Weather Underground and others draw off that data. These PWS stations (of which I have two) are not official notifications, nor do they have any relation to NWS radar or any of the others, although they are fun to look at.. Personally I prefer Intellicast/ Storm maps and predictions, but the simple fact is that NWS manages ALL EAS alerts across the country. If any of the apps wake up to an EAS Alert, it's NWS that forwarded it. THEY are the single agency that manages all things EAS
