Written for residents and owners at Pyne Ayre, a members only community located in the Upper Delaware Water Gap Recreational Area between Barryville and Eldred. This blog is managed on behalf of members by the Pyne Ayre Homeowners Association (PAHA).
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Free sources of weather information online
This past weekend there was a severe bout of freezing rain which caused difficult driving conditions across the North-East. For nearly all of us unexpected weather can cause major problems and yet despite this we still need to get from ‘A’ to ‘B’ because of the time-pressures of modern life.
Whilst weather control is beyond our capabilities having access to weather and weather alerts can be a major benefit in helping us plan travel better.
A good starting point for data is that used by the US Government and NOAA’s National Weather Service. Use your computer or laptop and visit http://www.weather.gov You can enter your zipcode so the website remembers to get more relevant information.
Weather.gov has links to a number of free weather resources at http://www.weather.gov/subscribe
TV’s the Weather Channel has a lot of information and can be found at http://www.weather.com Some data is free and other information can be had from a subscription service.
Closer to home, New York State provides an alert service which you can use with a mobile phone – visit for more details http://www.nyalert.gov
In addition modern cell phones have applications (or ‘apps’) which you can download at no or little cost and draw on the satellite feed from the NOAA.
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