It is with great sadness I must tell you that it looks like we have come to the end of the road relying on Twitter as the conduit for near real-time severe storm, flood, fire and hurricane information.
Twitter has changed and restricted the ability for any other software or website (RV Weather included) to automatically access real-time National Weather Service Warnings. I had held out hope this would be a temporary issue, something that could be fixed by smart developers – but it looks like that will not be the case.
Twitter is now even threatening to charge the National Weather Service a fee to post their warnings – and then charge large amounts of money for other users to access that information in real-time. For the time being, the links below will work, but I expect I’ll need to take this down too in a few weeks or months.
I am sure someone will step into this self-inflicted information void and come up with a workable, just, fair, reliable and trusted solution – but until then my site and most other weather sites will have a ‘not-as-optimal’ ways of disseminating the latest severe weather warnings.
I intend to roll out a new real-time Weather Hazards graphic by the end of April that will make it quickly obvious when and where a National Weather Service Severe Weather Warning has been issued. But it will still take a couple more clicks than it previously had, to get the details of that warning.
Latest severe thunderstorm warnings
Latest warnings and advisories from the National Hurricane Center
View interactive national map of National Weather Service Warnings Watches and Advisories