Patent ID: 8264345

Claim:
A method of providing real-time site specific information comprising: (a) providing a weather alert manager having memory comprising a machine readable storage device, the memory including a weather alert manager program to correlate meteorological data with geographic data to produce a storm affected area defined by geo-referenced coordinates; (b) establishing a user profile with information about a user who is interested in receiving an alert message, where each user profile comprises: (i) a plurality of points of interest, where each point of interest is provided by the user; (ii) remote receiver contact information associated with a remote receiver; and (iii) user preferences indicating the type of environmental data about which the user desires to be notified; where each of said plurality of points of interest have a point of interest location, and where the points of interest include at least one mobile point of interest having a geographic position indicator and a transmitter for transmitting a mobile point of interest location; and where the weather alert manager has access to the user profile; (c) transmitting the mobile point of interest location from the mobile point of interest to the weather alert manager; (d) accessing the mobile point of interest location by the weather alert manager; (e) comparing the storm affected area produced by the weather alert manager with the point of interest locations, including said mobile point of interest location, and the user preferences to determine if the user alert message is needed; (f) transmitting the user alert message to the remote receiver using the remote receiver contact information associated with the remote receiver when the user alert message is needed; (g) receiving the user alert message in the remote receiver; and (h) notifying the user of the user alert message received by the remote receiver.