National Weather Services’ RSS Feeds Not That Useful
Even though the idea is cool, the actual implementation of the RSS Weather Alerts at the National Weather Service leave a lot to be desired.
Sure, you see headlines like “FLOOD WARNING” and some brief text, but the Short-Term forecasts have absolutely no info in them besides when they’re issued and the URL to view them at.
The real meat of the data are the CAP/XML files, but unfortunately RSS readers don’t support the format. This is where openWeather comes in.
One of my main goals for openWeather is to subscribe to a warning/watch type for a specific county or metropolitan area (which is really just a set of counties). When a warning matching your subscription criteria is issued, you’ll be alerted through RSS or other means.