[LeArc] Looking for a good weather email service

[learc@mailman.qth.net]

Jay T Hainline wrote:

>
>
> I am looking for comments/suggestions for a free weather email service.
> I would like to be able to subscribe here at work to get timely winter
> weather advisories/watches/warnings as well as the severe weather
> watches/tornado watches and area outlines for our area.
>
> If you know of a service that has worked for you, please post. I DO NOT
> have internet access here so something like the Weatherbug program will
> not work.
>
> 73 Jay
> KA9CFD

Jay, I am subscribed to a service that sends an email message to my computer here and
also to my cell phone I carry with me.

   It is not for routine weather reports, but rather watches, warnings and so on.  You
can pick the counties you want to be advised for, McDonough is one of them.

   I have subscribed to it for over a year, and I am pleased with it, although the
messages it sends to my cell phone seem to be larger than my phone can receive in
entirety.

With my cell phone, I can get enough of the message to see if it is a watch or warning
and what counties are involved, but the descriptions of it are cut off.   It serves the
purpose though, when my phone vibrates and the display tells me it is a weather message,
that`s my clue to tune in the local news station to see what is happening.

    The messages that it sends to my home email address are similar to the messages that
have been posted here on this email list.

    This service is from the National Weather Service, based out of the Quad Cities.

    It is available for subscribing to from the WQAD Channel 8 TV station in the Quad
Cities at this web site:

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=446617

   Also, audio from the NOAA weather station in Macomb is available on the internet at:

HTTP://www.wiu.com/ram/noaa.ram


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Marlin Webb,  Milan,  Illinois,    wd9hzu@revealed.net