AccuWeather’s new Android application for smart phones boasts real-time, pushed severe weather alerts that make it easy to receive notice of impending, inclement weather in the user’s home location. Pushed severe weather alerts are for weather events that include, snow and ice, rain and thunderstorms, high wind, and tornadoes in the US.
When there is such an event forecasted for a user’s selected home location, the user’s phone will vibrate and a notice will appear in the app’s status bar. Users may choose whether to enable the pushed severe weather alert feature in the app’s welcome screen and settings screen.
“Proactively alerting our users that severe weather is in their forecast is very important to us,’ said Pascal Racheneur, AccuWeather Vice President of Interactive Media. “Pushed severe weather alerts are another way that we can give you immediate access to your local and up-to-date weather conditions. In addition to pushed severe weather alerts, we added lifestyle forecasts – special weather forecasts for specific hobbies or activities such as, travel and sports, and forecasts that impact specific health conditions, such as asthma and migraines.’
Another useful feature is accurate and local forecasts for locations worldwide. Updated every hour, forecasts have detailed hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours, plus day and night forecasts and information for the next 15 days – all in 27 languages.
