{"id":17664,"date":"2019-08-13T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=17664"},"modified":"2019-08-13T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:31:49","slug":"how-to-add-a-national-weather-service-non-app-to-your-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/08\/how-to-add-a-national-weather-service-non-app-to-your-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a National Weather Service mobile website to your cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked from time to time what weather apps I use on my smartphone. Let me say at the outset that I am a minimal smartphone user, so I am probably not the person to ask about this. But I do have a couple of apps on my phone so I can check the radar and get a quick forecast. I also want to have at least one app that can give me a warning if my area is under a severe weather warning of some sort. I was interested to read this <em>CoCoRaHS<\/em> blog post about how to add a National Weather Service page to my smartphone home screen, because I love the NWS (I am a former employee) and prefer to use their forecasts over most commercial sites. You can read the blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/cocorahs.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/the-latest-nws-forecast-on-your.html?fbclid=IwAR3wMz3HTbpV1ReR8kjh_3akKjSkdCZWRxntuwnMu6o_vn3Gp6BgW2awM-s\">here<\/a>. I found the instructions very easy to follow.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering why the NWS does not have an app, this <em>Forbes<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2019\/08\/12\/why-doesnt-the-national-weather-service-have-a-weather-app\/?fbclid=IwAR0BClsCHVxfvcjBCUIpHKjhK8PDPcm55o8pUwoq5Y7una1LLkVv1PF0Kg8#62568d0c58a8\">post<\/a> from Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA may shed some light on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17665\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen-300x260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked from time to time what weather apps I use on my smartphone. Let me say at the outset that I am a minimal smartphone user, so I am probably not the person to ask about this. But I do have a couple of apps on my phone so I can check the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":17665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17673,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17664\/revisions\/17673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}