Yet another serious telecommunications breakdown amid dangerous #wildfire outbreak in Northwest Territories of Canada this evening. Multiple large communities are evacuating with little means of receiving information...a theme playing out over and over and over again. #NWTfires https://t.co/hthtepRvvO
@weatherwest modern cell phones are software to find radios. They can be programmed to receive and transmit on a wide variety of spectra. I wonder if it's possible to use a cell phone as a weather radio receiver?
@statesdj @weatherwest I don't know about receiving weather radio, but with a headphone cord for an antenna, I can receive FM radio broadcasts on my Motorola cellphone, with the Android FM Radio app, and, at least here in Alaska, our radio stations typically rebroadcast important NWS alerts via the EAS system - and those stations typically have greater overall coverage than NWS stations (which are often off the air due to budget created maintenance issues)
https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages
(maybe there's an app for receiving NWS, or someone can create one)
