Weather Radios

Top 10 Best Weather Radios, 2016
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/weather-preparedness/top-10-best-weather-radios-2011/

UPDATE: The Best Weather Radio 2016 and all of the reasons why…

List of Top 10 best selling Weather Radios

Evaluated based on Amazon popularity (as of this writing).

Not only should the preparedness-minded person have a weather radio, but everyone should consider the value of having one, especially if you live in a severe weather prone area (thunderstorm, tornado, winter storms, coastal, hurricane, flooding, etc..). A weather radio could save your life.

‘Weather Radio’ and ‘NOAA weather radio’ are essentially referring to the same thing. ‘NOAA’ stands for ‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’, a U.S. government organization that manages the National Weather Service and weather radio emergency broadcast network – which transmits alerts and warnings to weather radios. ---CONTINUED---

Noaa tries to make it fairly easy to find which of their transmitters, and which of their alerts cover you.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/Maps/

ReadyMom wrote:Top 10 Best Weather Radios, 2011
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/weather-preparedness/top-10-best-weather-radios-2011/

The list of ‘best’ weather radios has been updated for 2011
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The link above seems to have been "updated" and now points to a more current article. It only features one weather radio: the Midland. It may be that the others have become niche market radios. The Midland isn't suitable for back packing, so there should be other radios that are good backpack radios.

I just got one of those Midland radios, and except for the clumsy programming interface, it seems pretty good. Give yourself half an hour if you have never programmed something like that before.