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Is there a web app that will send me a reminder or alert based on a weather event?

Such as:

  • 24-48 hours before freezing, I could set an alert to remind me to shut off the outside hose

  • 4 hours before rain, remind me to close all the windows in the house

Ideally I'd want to be able to customize the alert based on the weather/forecast trigger that I choose

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How do you expect to be receiving alerts? Email? SMS? Telepathy? – kzh Sep 11 '11 at 22:13

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Looks like a perfect use case for ifthisthenthat

Put the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure: if this then that. Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).

Have a look at the list of weather channel triggers.

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ifttt to the rescue again! thanks – Josh Newman Sep 12 '11 at 13:59
I just found out about this, and was coming to post another answer. Looks like I was beat to it. – kzh Sep 15 '11 at 20:31
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Weather.com sends me text messages based off of certain conditions. It sends these alerts to SMS on certain carriers and to email. https://registration.weather.com/ursa/alerts/step1

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