![]() You can plug in a specific address - which will result in weather alerts for a 2.5 square kilometer area around that place (drawing on census classifications) - or an entire town or city. The color categories consolidate and simplify National Weather Service designations, which vary depending on the type of weather phenomenon, and draw on the service’s data and risk detection, which is why the geographic range is limited to the contiguous United States. JReaders only receive an email if there is a “lower” (yellow), “medium” (orange), or “higher” (red) risk of extreme weather in one or more of these places, and they can change their four selected places whenever they want. Sign up today and we’ll let you know when forecasters see a risk of tornadoes, hail, high winds or excessive rain. The New York Times has launched Your Places: Extreme Weather, a newsletter about extreme weather risks in places important to you. It’s the latest example of the Times’ push into personalized newsletters, and of the Times’ experimentation with and emphasis on weather data. Readers do not have to be paid Times subscribers to get the Your Places: Extreme Weather newsletter. ![]() The New York Times believes such a system could be useful to you this week, the organization launched a newsletter that allows readers to select up to four places in the continental United States and receive a morning email if there’s a risk of any of four types of extreme weather in the next three days - excessive rain, tornadoes, high winds, or hail. What if you received a brief email alerting you to a chance of extreme weather, and explaining the level and type of risk, where your daughter is working a summer job, or where your father lives in a retirement community, or where you’re planning to travel for a weekend? And what if you could get a single email summarizing any low, moderate, or high level of extreme weather risk in all of those places? And you might not only be preoccupied with the chances of extreme weather where you live, but also in places you’re traveling, or where your friends and loved ones reside. As the warming climate causes extreme weather events to become more frequent and severe, your everyday concern about weather risks may be growing.
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