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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / January 2007On the road weather?
What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do you check on the weather before you go? Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. > What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are > camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do > you check on the weather before you go? > > Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. TV, radio, cell phone. How do you check your weather at home without a computer?  SignatureFrank Tabor Optimism is the content of small men in high places. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up" I see where Frank Tabor <ftabor@gmail.com> contributed: Randall wrote: >> What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are >> camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do >> you check on the weather before you go? >> >> Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. FT: >TV, radio, cell phone. How do you check your weather at home without a >computer? On the road via NOAA wx stations, via CB radio w/wx channels. Or call Linus. Will Sill Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. >> What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are >> camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >TV, radio, cell phone. How do you check your weather at home without a >computer? Radio or TV but they wouldn't give the forecast 100 - 200 miles away. >What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are >camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do >you check on the weather before you go? > >Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. XM Weather, I have it on my GPS unit. You can get instant weather anywhere, 10 or 200 miles down the road. The TV. In lesser populated areas the local TV station my cover half of the state. Last fall we ran from Western Montana to Eastern South Dakota in a storm. We checked the local TV every night to follow the storm path. After three days we decided to drop South to get out of the weather, all based on the TV forecast. Glenn > What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are > camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do > you check on the weather before you go? > > Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. > What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? <http://www.weatherradiostore.com/product.asp?itmky=91031&mfgno=WR103&cat=5&sca t=1> If you can receive and understand the broadcast on just one of the 6(?) NOAA weather "channels" received by this device, it will include information specific to your location. Your tax dollars make this receiver work, so everyone should be using one. When we're not traveling, an earlier version of the above-linked radio operates in the house. Except during the inevitable spring watches and warnings, the device stays silent. A question of GPS geeks: Can you easily learn what COUNTY you are in from your GPS device/service? Such information is critical to getting the best service from the above-linked weather radio. Signature:) JR >> What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > your GPS device/service? Such information is critical to getting the best > service from the above-linked weather radio. If you are using Delorme Street Atlas or Topo, yes, there is an option to turn on county names. However, on my Magellan Meridian, there isn't any county data in the maps displayed. SignatureFrank Tabor Checking host system type... i586-unknown-linux configure: error: sorry, this is the gnu os, not linux -- Topic on #Linux Randall; > What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are > camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do > you check on the weather before you go? > > Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. If you have a cell phone you can get the weather a number of ways. One is to call "4info" and send the text message "w XXX" where XXX is the city name, area code or zip code. It will send the weather forecast back to your phone. You can get lots of other info too, sports, news, etc. Go here for more info: http://www.4info.net/ Google for "cell phone weather" for lots of other options. James If you have Verizon service, you can get Accuweather on your cell phone for 4$/month. I do because my job requires that I have access to such information. If you can get to a Verizon store get them to set you up with the free trial before you sign up. Matt > Randall; > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > James Signaturetarget of diversity victim of affirmative action refugee from the war on poverty minimized by political correctness Matt, It seems they have lowered the price. You can get it for $1.99/mo now. http://www.accumessenger.com/weather/index.jsp?partnerCode=ksn Click on More Info. And it is not just for Verizon customers either. James > If you have Verizon service, you can get Accuweather on your cell phone > for 4$/month. I do because my job requires that I have access to such [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> James >What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? If you are >camp9ing in point A an dare planning on going north 100+ miles how do >you check on the weather before you go? > >Taking into account that you are NOT using a computer. assuming we have TV service we watch the news. if no TV but we have an internet connection (wi-fi, cellphone..something) we'll check weather.com. if no internet i'll listen to NOAA weather radio. if no NOAA radio we wing it. in fact, we wing it most of the time. we don't usually make reservations anywhere and since we're mobile we can always pick up and leave. 73, rich, n9dko > What do ya all do about keeping "ahead" of the weather? 511 is becoming the default three-digit help line for road conditions and weather. It should work in most places. Signature:) JR
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