Prepare for severe weather with the AccuWeather app

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Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter showcases how you can monitor multiple locations of severe weather to keep you and your family safe with the AccuWeather app's notifications feature.

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00:00Very dangerous weather across parts of the central and eastern United States over the coming days,

00:05with a significant risk of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes and flash flooding.

00:09A great way to be better prepared and stay safer is using the free AccuWeather app.

00:14And I'm going to show you the capabilities around the notifications today,

00:17because this is one of the things that we hear from customers time and time again

00:21that they love about the AccuWeather app.

00:23AccuWeather, on average, delivers government warnings faster than any other known source.

00:29That can give you extra time to be best prepared and stay safer.

00:32That's what we do here at AccuWeather.

00:34Here's the AccuWeather free app home screen.

00:36And notice on the top here, I'm over in Memphis,

00:38but you can tap on the location and go anywhere around the country and around the world.

00:44And many people add in the locations where their family members are located,

00:49maybe their brother or sister, their kids are located.

00:52You can add those all in here and favorite those locations.

00:55And if you do that, you tap on that favorite,

00:58and the AccuWeather app is going to ask you, would you like to receive notifications?

01:01Say receive notifications.

01:03Then you'll get those government warnings for that particular location.

01:06I'm going to go back to the main screen.

01:08And another way to verify that is you actually can go into the upper left-hand corner here

01:13and go into the settings capability.

01:15And when you do that, you can go under manage notifications, which is right in here.

01:20And when you bring up manage notifications, that's going to give you a list of all the locations.

01:24Make sure government warnings are turned on right here and also lightning alerts.

01:29Those lightning alerts can be very valuable

01:31and can showcase when lightning is detected within your area as well.

01:34See, it'll send a push notification to your phone just like that,

01:38letting you know that lightning is nearby.

01:40AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.

01:44Download the free AccuWeather app today.

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