AccuWeather provides various ways to access not only AccuWeather alerts but also severe weather and government alerts to give you the best information for making weather-related decisions.
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00:00Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are all going to feature severe weather threats across various
00:05parts of the country, so those government warnings delivered faster on average than
00:09any other source into the AccuWeather app are going to be very important to help stay
00:14safer and be best informed.
00:17And I want to show how to access some of those tools here.
00:19We'll look at Midland, Texas here on the AccuWeather app just as an example, and when there are
00:24government warnings in effect, they're listed up on the top.
00:27You can tap on that, and you'll get access to all the warnings that are in effect, so
00:32high wind watches and fire weather watches, and tapping on that allows you to see the
00:36full text of the watch warning or advisory, and then the map shows the area that's impacted,
00:42and you can tap on that and get more details as well.
00:45One of the other very important aspects are push notifications, and when push notifications
00:50are enabled, that allows the AccuWeather app to deliver those right to your home screen
00:54whether you're using the app or not, and to access that, you tap on this little bar in
00:59the upper left-hand corner, go down to settings, and make sure under manage notifications,
01:05you tap on that and you're able to enable government alerts, make sure that those are
01:10on for any locations, your current location and any other locations you care about.
01:15You can put cities where your kids live or where your parents live, so you can keep best
01:20informed about what's happening in those areas.
01:22You can also turn on lightning alerts, and also through the AccuWeather app, you can
01:27activate AccuWeather alerts, which complement and extend the benefit of government warnings,
01:32enabling AccuWeather meteorologists to provide more advance notice where possible.
01:36That's a great tool, that's a subscription service that's available through the AccuWeather
01:41Premium Plus service.
01:43AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of forecasts and warnings.
01:47Download the free AccuWeather app today.
01:52www.accuweather.com