StormSiren

A severe weather monitor sends short weather bulletins for your area to your pager, SMS capable wireless phone or e-mail account
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  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • Rory McManus
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StormSiren Description

Awareness of severe weather hazards can save lives. The National Weather Service and their many special divisions such as the Storm Prediction Center do a great job of providing severe weather forecasting and detection. Television and radio stations, web sites, and other media help convey this information to the general public. But unless you're watching, listening, or surfing when the information comes out, you may not be aware of it. The goal of StormSiren is to try and help fill that gap. StormSiren is a personal severe weather monitoring tool that communicates information from National Weather Service issued bulletins on potential and imminent hazardous weather. StormSiren is designed to run via a scheduling program (such as the Windows task scheduler or cron) and scan the NWS Interactive Weather Information Network for warnings and watches affecting user specified locations. When such bulletins are detected, StormSiren sends a concise summary of the alert to one or more devices via SMTP, such as a pager, SMS capable wireless phone, or standard e-mail account. The summaries are designed to fit within a 160 character display, and contain the type of hazard, the affected counties and cities defined by the user, and the issue and expiration times of the bulletin.


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