Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter showcases how you can monitor multiple locations of severe weather to keep you and your family safe with the AccuWeather app's notifications feature.
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00:00Very dangerous weather across parts of the central and eastern United States over the coming days,
00:05with a significant risk of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes and flash flooding.
00:09A great way to be better prepared and stay safer is using the free AccuWeather app.
00:14And I'm going to show you the capabilities around the notifications today,
00:17because this is one of the things that we hear from customers time and time again
00:21that they love about the AccuWeather app.
00:23AccuWeather, on average, delivers government warnings faster than any other known source.
00:29That can give you extra time to be best prepared and stay safer.
00:32That's what we do here at AccuWeather.
00:34Here's the AccuWeather free app home screen.
00:36And notice on the top here, I'm over in Memphis,
00:38but you can tap on the location and go anywhere around the country and around the world.
00:44And many people add in the locations where their family members are located,
00:49maybe their brother or sister, their kids are located.
00:52You can add those all in here and favorite those locations.
00:55And if you do that, you tap on that favorite,
00:58and the AccuWeather app is going to ask you, would you like to receive notifications?
01:01Say receive notifications.
01:03Then you'll get those government warnings for that particular location.
01:06I'm going to go back to the main screen.
01:08And another way to verify that is you actually can go into the upper left-hand corner here
01:13and go into the settings capability.
01:15And when you do that, you can go under manage notifications, which is right in here.
01:20And when you bring up manage notifications, that's going to give you a list of all the locations.
01:24Make sure government warnings are turned on right here and also lightning alerts.
01:29Those lightning alerts can be very valuable
01:31and can showcase when lightning is detected within your area as well.
01:34See, it'll send a push notification to your phone just like that,
01:38letting you know that lightning is nearby.
01:40AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.
01:44Download the free AccuWeather app today.