Hurricane Florence Coverage

To get alerts Typically you enter the SAME (NWR Specific Area Message Encoding ) for your radio and its linked to the county that you live in . These are found on the NOAA website here http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/nwrsame.html

If you are using a NOAA radio they typically have an alerting feature that will go off it event of a warning.

Some radios you can enter multiple SAME Codes maybe for areas where your family live or whatever.
According to NOAA website: WeatherRadio requires a special radio receiver or scanner capable of picking up the signal. Broadcasts are found in the VHF public service band at these seven frequencies (MHz)

Or you can just listen to the broadcasts which of course are completely automated typically.
Here is an example of the Alerts using a NOAA radio which work in conjunction with TV alerts and now mobile phone alerts. But also outdoor sirens in a specified area.

Some sirens talk - they are not all the same. Depends on the age of the sirens.


there are 1025 sites across the US and its territories and islands.

LIVE VIEW as FLORENCE moves toward land.

The Weather Channel is really putting their new VR tech to use. Its pretty incredible.

This was captured by NewscastStudio.

MSNBC is providing continuous updates while in commercial break:





And NBC Owned Stations deployed their closest Storm Ranger to Norfolk, VA which is picking up the outermost bands of the storm.

Here's hoping they write Storm Deirdre into Coronation Street.

Fox News rolling coverage starts at 3am ET with Fox and Friends First starting an hour earlier.

MSNBC is going live all night and there’s a special optional hour of Today at 6AM for affiliates who want to clear ITN

Clear ITN? As in, the UK's ITN?

Sorry it’s a autocorrect error. It’s should have read that it’s available to affiliates who want to clear it.

Nothing to be sorry about! I was hoping ITN World News still existed for a second then!

Steph Abrams and Jim Cantore are basically in the eyewall now on TWC. Superb job from Steph this morning basically as lead anchor amidst all of the conditions. Great presentation and good mix of guests and reports from chasers and emergency representatives.

CNN International is using the ad breaks in the domestic coverage to give updates on Typhoon Mangkhut. They're showing trails for their own programmes later today but I wonder how many more of them will be ditched for simulcasts.

I'm very impressed with WECT's coverage given how small a station it is. They've already been on air non-stop for a long time.

I'm currently watching a mix of that and WRAL - both, incidentally, stream very nicely to a TV via Chromecast in HD.