Once again, the weather is in the news. Since summer just started, hot weather is starting to show its hot face more and more. Since this is Current Events Thursday, it seemed appropriate to discuss it a bit.
What with family vacations coming up (including multi-generational vacations which are becoming more popular than ever); grandkids’ summer activities like swim lessons and vacation Bible school; and the always ongoing doctor and dentist appointments for aging parents and grandkids, it can be very handy to know what kind of weather you can expect, even in the summer. For some of us, such as those in hurricane country, especially the summer.
I thought some weather resources would be a great help for all of us. They’ll come in handy now, and continue to be useful when the wild, woolly and cold winter weather arrives in six months.
Weather.com is pretty popular and well-known. But did you know that it also has the latest info on both Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean hurricanes ? Not only that, they give you the option to have weather alerts sent to your email or your cell phone. Your aging parent won’t be able to have them sent to their Jitterbug, but any cell phone that supports texting will work.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather site is terrific too. They include such things as fire weather, aviation, tsunami alerts. lightning information, and more. You can sign up for text message alerts from them also. Not only that, they have an excellent education/outreach section including fun things for our grandkids!
If you are monitoring elderly parents from a distance, check out Weather Bonk. You can type in their zip code, then see the week’s weather along with live photos of the surrounding area. It might be a good help if an aging parent is afraid of the noise from the rain, and you can assure her that it looks fairly calm where they are at. 
These are all great resources and it’s especially nice that they are all free – making these great money saver tips as well! Now that’s timely weather news we can all use.
Speaking of News You Can Use, another interesting piece of news for the week is that the Boomers & Seniors: News You Can Use Blog Carnival is out! If you haven’t already checked it out, now’s the time to do so. You’ll find several interesting articles for the Sandwich Generation and Baby Boomer Generation on such topics as:
- Retiring Overseas
- TV’s Changing Bandwidth
- Arkansas’ Institute on Aging Gets $33.4 Million
- The new ‘female problem’: Caregiver stress
- Planning to Retire Later Also has Risks
Head on over to Seniors For Living to read all these and more (including one by yours truly ) at the Boomers and Seniors: News You Can Use Blog Carnival.
And for more news of interest, including a good article about supporting your local libraries, check out The Surrendered Scribe! I know my senior mom AND my grandkids would miss their library terribly!
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These are great resources. I know I often check weather.com to see how things are where my mom is. What a timely and informational post! Thanks again for participating!
Hi Julie, Thanks for popping by.
I really enjoyed your news article about libraries closing, as well.