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I have Viigo configured to grab the rss feeds for warnings/watches/advisories for an entire state from noaa. Its kinda a pain to set it up but once done it works ok but it is semi cumbersome to use, but I am ok with it. You'll have to decide that. I've decided to put up with it because emergency email is only setup to work with the zip code you enter (I believe) so if your out and about and the weather looks like its going to get bad. I wanted something to get the "big picture" of whats going on. I have a weather radio at home that gives me the alerts when they occur when I'm there.
Go to NOAA's National Weather Service and on the left side bar at the top is a entry for rss feeds. Select that and wade through the information to find the entry for severe weather and that will get you to the listing for states. Select the state and look at the url and enter that into Viigo or whatever you are using for rss feeds. For Ohio the url for the rss feed is Ohio - Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Ohio Issued by the National Weather Service
So when I want to know what is going on at that moment in time I just update that channel and I get it all and I look through the various entries which are typically ordered by alert type and see if the county is listed. If nothing shows up I don't dig any further. If interested I pick the county of interest and open that via the browser and look through the country list again and use the links in the browser to put me at the spot I am interested in. Then I just leave the browser open on that page and refresh it when I want an update.
Its a bit cumbersome but it gets me consistently to the information I want to get when I am out and about. Not perfect but this does give you some additional possibilities. I live in tornado prone area and those things just pop up out of no where and anywhere so at least I can the information I am looking for fairly quickly.
At least this is another possibility that's free. Your tax dollars at work.
03-30-08 10:02 AM
