Weather channels?

If you're traveling somewhere far from home and don't have your phone programmed to receive alerts for that county, it can be a nice thing to have.

 

Cobra is made to pick up any place with a NOAA signal/ I like a police scanner myself. It's a great entry radio.

 

Agreed, While NOAA is repetitive and bland, they are factual and the channels will only cover the affected area. Better than TV and cable, it's where they get their stuff from, NOAA that is.....

Always good to have on board however you choose IMO....

 

a smart man will have all of the above, i have radio, stero has wb on it, i have blackberry phone and laptop too.... can use any of them , i prefer to tether blackberry to laptop and us it cause its faster and one hell of alot easier to see plus faster and you can pull up multiple things at once.... its said there is a tool made for every job , and a man can't ever have enuf tools lol

 

A Wx radio with auto-tune (travel mode) can be very helpful in the event weather rapidly deteriorates or you enter an area with an immediate storm or tornado threat. Even when the Wx radio is not being listened to, if a warning comes across by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, it will audible you there is an incoming message. You can listen to it or not. Warnings post for both extreme winter events and spring summer type storms and since the range per tower is not extremely far, you won't get many alarms that don't possibly pertain to your present location.

Plus using all the various smartphone apps such as weather and scanners that are constantly querying various web servers and eating data even while the phone is idle and the app not active, can quickly eat into your data limit if it's not terribly large.

 

You won't have internet everywhere...