Now get weather alerts for your exact location
June 12, 2006 by Mike Wendland
The popular Weatherbug service has launched a new feature today that provides severe weather alerts and warnings keyed to specific addresses and locations, instead of generalized and zip-code areas.
They call it the Smart Notification Weather Service and it can be programmed to be transmitted by phone-voice, phone-SMS, email or pager. It’s a subscription service being marketed for businesses, schools, recreational sites, government agencies, retail companies, transportation firms and public places that have strong needs to get severe weather information in advance of a serious threat.
Weatherbug has a network of 8,000 WeatherBug live, streaming data weather tracking stations and over 1,000 cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S and will use it, as well as info from the National Weather Service to deliver warnings and alerts of such things as nearby lightning strikes, dangerous winds and tornado and hurricane warnings.
You can see a demo of the new service here. It costs about $10 per user per month.
Where is PC Mike located? If he lives in Charlottesville, VA we would very much like to ask him to speak to our group.
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