Anyone Sharing Closings with Everyone

WeatherThreat.com is a school closings system and a network of shared closings for schools, businesses, organizations, etc. It is built for the media and individual account holders.

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What Does WeatherThreat Do?

  • WeatherThreat creates one centralized source for closing records that can be used by any of the WeatherThreat.com media participants.

  • Schools, organizations, businesses, etc. can enter a closing alert using their free account to enter a school closing without having to contact multiple stations.

  • WeatherThreat automatically picks up other alerts entered by another media outlet or account holder in your coverage area to keep closings up to date.

Why Use WeatherThreat?

  • Is preloaded with all available public schools in your coverage area.
  • Automatically updates your website with all relevant closings and removes expired closings.
  • Only picks up the closings specific to your coverage area.
  • Requires no special software or complex installation for a basic setup.
  • Can significantly increase traffic to your site during bad weather.
  • Can be used on-air.
  • Eliminates redundant phone calls and data entry.
  • Can reduce your station’s workload on stormy days to a fraction of what it once was.
  • Has been used successfully by millions of people across the United States for years.

Media Solutions

Our media solutions are aimed at television stations, radio stations, and online newspapers who want to syndicate school closings, postponements, cancelations, notices-and other similar announcements-from a shared data pool that is ultimately populated by administrators at schools, universities, factories, churches, businesses, non-profits, and other organizations.

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Bronze Plan

  • Our most economical plan.
  • Coverage area can include up to 25 counties.
  • Email support during normal business hours.
  • License limited to website and verbal on-air usage.
  • No option to embed your own sponsor advertisements on widgets.

Silver Plan

  • Coverage area can include up to 25 counties.
  • Ability to embed your own sponsor advertisements on the widgets.
  • Also includes National Weather Services alerts for your coverage area.
  • Ability to filter certain types of alerts (ask for details).
  • Phone support during business hours. After hours email support.
  • License limited to website and verbal on-air usage.

Gold Plan

  • Includes Silver Plan, plus:
  • Uptime guarantee
  • License to use raw data for the following:
  • TV Crawl
  • Text messaging
  • In-house widget
  • Mobile App
  • Other options available

Schools & Others

The information found in this section is written for those who work for schools, businesses, and other organizations that need to instantly submit important notifications to the local media. Examples Include:

  • A business, school or non-profit that must close due to snow or ice.
  • A school that is on an emergency lockdown.
  • A church that needs to let its members know services will be canceled because of inclement weather.
  • A factory that needs to shut down a shift due to a power outage

If these types of situations might apply to you, then your first step is to check our current list of Media Participants to see if WeatherThreat.com is already covering your county. If we are, then request a free account. Your request will be sent to a media member in your area for review.

Select a state to see what WeatherThreat.com media participants cover counties in that state.

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