Get ahead of severe weather with the AccuWeather app

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Severe weather warnings are delivered by AccuWeather faster than any other source on average. Take advantage of this with the AccuWeather app, and be ready should severe weather threatens your area.

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00:00Wide variety of dangerous severe weather across parts of the central and eastern United States

00:10over the coming days.

00:11It would be a great time to download the free AccuWeather app and make sure you're using

00:15our severe weather notifications, our push notifications for severe weather.

00:20And in order to be able to do that, let's go to the AccuWeather app on the iPad here,

00:24but this also of course looks very similar on the iPhone and Android devices too.

00:29You go up onto the top here and you're able to select your forecast for your current location

00:35automatically or any location around the country or around the world.

00:38We'll go over to Memphis here today, a location that we're concerned about significant flooding

00:42threats here over the next couple of days.

00:44You can see the AccuWeather exclusive minute cast, minute by minute forecast there as well.

00:49But I want to highlight up on the top of the screen here, this is where government warnings

00:53will show up right on the top.

00:55And you're able to tap on there, and if I tap on that spot there, we'll go in and be

00:59able to look at all the lists of alerts that are in effect in that location.

01:03You can tap on any of those and see the full text by just scrolling down that information.

01:09Of course, these government warnings delivered quicker by AccuWeather on average than any

01:13other source, that can save your life in a severe weather event.

01:17And that's a great reason to have the free AccuWeather app.

01:20You also have a map display of the warning area as well.

01:23I want to show how to turn on those push notifications because that's a very important

01:27aspect here.

01:28You can tap in the upper left hand corner on the screen, right to the left of the AccuWeather

01:33logo, then go down to settings and manage notifications.

01:38And when you tap on manage notifications, this is where you want to turn on, make sure

01:42government alerts are turned on and you can select for your current location or any other

01:46location that you care about.

01:47Many times people have their, where their parents live or where their kids are located

01:51so that you can get those notifications.

01:54Safer as well.

01:55AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.

01:58Download the free AccuWeather app today.

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