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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