Stay on top of the weather if you have any outdoor plans. When you download the free AccuWeather app, you'll be able to monitor thunderstorms in your area as well as receive lightning alerts.
00:00Well it's certainly the time of the year when we have many thunderstorms across various parts of the country and tragically there have been many people who have been struck by lightning in recent days. It's lightning safety awareness week and we want to tell you about a tool a special tool in the free AccuWeather app that can help you to be stay safer and be better prepared as it relates to lightning. Let's take a look at that on the free AccuWeather app and when you download the app you go to the main dashboard here and of
00:29course you can go to automatically your community or type in any location around the country or around the world to get your latest local forecast from AccuWeather with proven superior accuracy and of course when you tap down to the bottom different types of weather data and look at the day by day forecast the day by day forecast always can highlight the risk for thunderstorms you want to be aware of that as you're for planning purposes but then another great tool is the lightning alerts that are in the free AccuWeather app and to get into that setting you tap in the upper left hand corner of the
00:59screen and you go over to settings and then down to manage notifications and there you can see lightning alerts and what we do here at AccuWeather's app will send you a notification if lightning strikes within 15 miles of your current location or any of your other saved locations you want to make sure that's turned on and while you're in there also make sure those government alerts and weather news updates from AccuWeather are turned on as well and I want to show you what those lightning alerts are going to look like in the AccuWeather app
01:29a push notification right to your device right to the home screen of your device and that will allow you to go into the AccuWeather app and be able to get more details such as checking out our interactive radar or AccuWeather MinuteCast AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings better protect your family and keep them safer download the free AccuWeather app today
