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The free AccuWeather app has many important tools to help you prepare for storms and all kinds of weather situations. One of the main capabilities is lightning alerts in the event of a thunderstorm.
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00:05Thunderstorms a common problem, some severe here over the coming days across the central part of
00:10the United States. We have many tools in the free AccuWeather app to help you to track
00:14thunderstorms and all types of weather situations to help you to stay safer and make the best
00:18decisions. And one of those capabilities is the lightning alerts that AccuWeather offers
00:23in the free AccuWeather app. And I want to show you when you tap in the upper right hand corner
00:28of the screen, you can go down to settings and then go into manage notifications. And
00:35when you do that, you'll see a list of different capabilities here. Make sure government alerts
00:40are turned on and also lightning alerts. And notice you can do that for your current location
00:44and for any location that you care about. So where your kids live, where your parents live,
00:49where you like to vacation, those can all be added in there as well as your current location.
00:53And when lightning is occurring near those areas, this is what's going to show up on the free
00:58AccuWeather app. Look, that's a push notification detailing lightning is in your area. And when
01:04you tap on that, you go right into the AccuWeather app and you can look at the radar and also
01:09lightning that's occurring. And I'm going to show you how you can do that. If you go back
01:12to the radar and maps down at the bottom here and you tap on lightning on the top, that's going
01:18to give you a view on the recent lightning. And this is a particular example. As you zoom
01:23in, you see the number of strikes that have occurred in any particular location. And as
01:27you zoom in, you can see where those strikes are occurring. And you can loop this out over
01:31time so you can watch the pattern of thunderstorms and when they're moving into your area. And
01:37of course, the AccuWeather minicast is always a great tool to track thunderstorms, as well
01:42as the hour by hour forecast. And you could scroll out and look at the rain chances at
01:47any particular hour with all the details. AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source
01:50of weather forecasts and warnings. Better protect your family and keep them safer. Download the
01:54free AccuWeather app today.
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