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You can get an emergency radio capable of receiving VHF NOAA weather alerts. There is typically at least one of the frequencies within range where ever you are. You can subscribe to weather alerts through RSS on their site as well.

https://alerts.weather.gov/

You can even pass lat/long points to the forecast page and it will pull up the closest weather station, even points in the ocean work.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.4802&lon=-1...



> You can get an emergency radio capable of receiving VHF NOAA weather alerts.

Apparently this was grandfathered in a long time ago. NOAA is only allowed to send weather reports by radio and on specific frequencies. Doing the same with the internet, why that would be communism!


And for the record, NOAA Weather Radio is pretty cool -- I like to get my weather from it when I'm at home.

I'm right in Boston, and I can pickup transmissions from the Blue Hill Observatory with my cheap Baofeng.


I imagine they'll lose that eventually, so that the radio band can be privatized


That is nowhere near the breadth or detail of actual noaa data, more of a few legacy services. Its a travesty this is all we get.




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