AccuWeather Alerts are specialized severe weather advanced notifications that complement and extend the usefulness of official government warnings to help people to better prepare, plan, and make the best decisions for greater safety and peace of mind. AccuWeather Alerts provide concise, easily understood alert messages on potential hazardous weather threats.

This patent-pending alerting system comprises a sequence of notifications as the event approaches—Severe Weather Potential, Severe Weather Threat, Dangerous Weather Imminent! The alerting sequence provides increasing specifics on the event and the times of the threat.

Stay informed and protected to the minute® with AccuWeather's Minute by Minute Forecasts®.  AccuWeather MinuteCast is an exclusive, patented Minute by Minute® precipitation forecast that provides important details including precipitation type and intensity, as well as start and end times for precipitation for up to the next four hours, pinpointed to a person's exact street address or GPS location. AccuWeather MinuteCast is available free on AccuWeather's award-winning mobile apps and on accuweather.com in 100 different languages. MinuteCast’s up to the minute® granularity and detail keep users “in the know” of forecasted precipitation that can disrupt their day if caught unprepared and covers more regions throughout the world with Minute by Minute Weather®, including 30 countries throughout Europe, Australia, China, and North and South America.  Available on the home screen of the free AccuWeather app, with Minute to Minute® certainty provided by AccuWeather MinuteCast, you can plan your day with confidence.