In the event of severe weather, it's important to be prepared before the storm arrives. Here's how the free AccuWeather app can help you stay ahead of the storm, especially when lightning starts.
00:00Thunderstorms, some severe in the AccuWeather forecast across parts of the southern United States over the coming days.
00:10We have many tools in the free AccuWeather app to help you to stay safer and make the best decisions in all weather events.
00:17And let me show you some of the tools that we have as it relates to staying safer during thunderstorms, especially as it relates to lightning.
00:23And when you go to our interactive maps, which you can access down on the tab Radar and Maps on the bottom here of the home screen of the free AccuWeather app.
00:32And of course that brings up the very popular interactive radar and map layers here.
00:38And you can select many different layers on the top here.
00:41This is the radar which you can animate from the past through the future to look at how precipitation is going to evolve over the next several hours.
00:48But if you tap on all maps and go over to lightning, of course this is a list of the dozens of maps that are available in the free AccuWeather app to help you visualize the weather.
00:58But if I tap on lightning, look at this, I now have lightning strikes showing up where there's lightning occurring.
01:03This is from the exclusive AccuWeather lightning network where we detect lightning within a couple of seconds of a strike.
01:11And you can actually turn on notifications within the free AccuWeather app as well.
01:15Take a look at what will happen when lightning is detected by AccuWeather in your area.
01:19You'll get a push notification to your phone.
01:21So you could be in another app.
01:23Your phone could be on the table or whatnot.
01:25It will light up with that.
01:26Lightning is in your area, which is very valuable for you to be able to display.
01:30And then you can animate the lightning and zoom in on the map to see all those individual strikes, where they're at, and play it out over time.
01:37Now, in order to enable those notifications, you need to go in the upper right-hand corner, go into settings, manage notifications, and make sure lightning alerts are turned on for your current location and any other location that you care about.
01:51Better protect your family and keep them safer.
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