Category: Weather Technology

“Offloading Apps” could be preventing you from getting severe weather warnings

If you are anything like me, you depend on your phone as one of your three methods to get severe weather information. However, a recently new feature with Apple’s iPhone could be preventing you from getting life saving information from the apps you trust. During the recent round of severe weather, I noticed that one of my go-to apps was not alerting me when watches and warnings were issued for my area. After a little investigation, I found that I had turned on the iPhone’s “Offload Apps” feature a few weeks ago when I was running low on storage space.

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Using Amazon Prime to Prepare for Hurricane Florence

Be sure to follow the progress of Hurricane Florence at TalkWeather.com .  Our dedicated members of weather enthusiasts and metrologists provide updates and tracking information as the hurricane approaches the United States. As residents of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia are bracing for the impact of category 4 Hurricane Florence later this week, some are finding that store shelves are already becoming barren of essential items.  The fact that this storm was so quickly identified and tracked means that people are taking the warnings seriously and are already preparing for the damaging wind and possible flooding that can occur with a storm

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Introducing Storm Mapping

Earlier this month we celebrated the one year anniversary of the re-launch of TalkWeather with a brief State of the Forum post.  In that post, I made mention of new some new features that we are hoping to launch in the near future.  Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of one new member benefit that is just too good to pass up. Storm Mapping WXPRO – Click here to register In partnership with SDS Weather and longtime TW member Michael Phelps, we are pleased to bring you Storm Mapping WXPRO.  Storm Mapping provides an iOS and Android app as well

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