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One of the best features on the free AccuWeather app is its lightning maps and alert notifications. Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter demonstrates these features designed to keep you safe from lightning.
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00:00We have so many tools in the free AccuWeather app to help you to stay
00:07safer make the best decisions one of those is our lightning maps and
00:12lightning alerts and we've enhanced these capabilities in the new AccuWeather
00:15app which is a free download you could do that by getting your smartphone and
00:20opening up the camera and scanning that QR code on the screen just bring up the
00:24camera app and move it to that QR code and that'll bring you to a page to
00:28download the free AccuWeather app and I want to show you if you go on this is
00:33the today screen which is sort of your hub of all the information relevant for
00:37today that you can scroll through including the interactive maps which you
00:40can also get down by tapping on radar and maps on the lower right hand corner of
00:45the screen and when you do that that's of course the very useful AccuWeather radar
00:51imagery and you can pan and zoom on this map anywhere around the world I want to
00:56show you in this particular example you can also turn on lightning that's a
00:59capability at the top now and when you turn on lightning all the latest lightning
01:04alert lightning strikes will plot on the map and you actually can animate that
01:09over time see those individual bolts of lightning there you can see the
01:12progress of lightning through any particular area which is very helpful of
01:16course you can pan and zoom as I mentioned anywhere you want the other
01:19thing that's very helpful and I got one of these alerts this morning while I was
01:23getting ready to go to work this morning you get a push notification if you have
01:26them turned on in the AccuWeather app that lightning has been detected in your
01:30area I want to show you how you can do that you actually go in the upper right
01:34hand corner go into settings and go into manage notifications and just turn on
01:40lightning alerts for your current location and any other locations that you
01:43care about and also turn on government warnings while you're in there as well
01:46download the free AccuWeather app today
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