Patent ID: 8427308

Claim:
A method of providing weather alerts comprising: (a) providing a computer having memory comprising a machine readable storage device; (b) receiving user profile information from a user and storing said user profile information in a user profile in the computer, where said user profile information 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 a type of weather event 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; (c) receiving a storm affected area defined by geo-referenced coordinates and a type of weather event associated with the storm affected area, and storing the storm affected area and the type of weather event associated with the storm affected area in the computer; (d) receiving the mobile point of interest location from the mobile point of interest and storing such mobile point of interest location in the computer (e) comparing the storm affected area with the point of interest locations, including the mobile point of interest location to determine if a user alert message is needed; and (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.