"Storm preparation is a major concern for us here at the marina. Keeping employees and local boaters aware of pending storms is a critical concern.

"We use Weather Defender as an additional resource to provide as close as real time weather data to our guests.  I am still learning how to fine tune the data and am confident it will be a big hit with our customers.  We actually have a flat panel display set up in our office where both our employees and customers can observe weather current data."

Tom Raiola
Brewer Bruce & Johnson’s Marina
Branford, Connecticut

At first glance, many of our users don't realize the degree to which Weather Defender can be customized. But this is one of the software's greatest strengths, so we thought you should know about it.

Here's a recap of the tutorial videos we have recently released:

	Street-Level Weather Tracking Learn how to add local county and neighborhood streets to your map and track real-time weather down to the street-level. (2:59)  Watch Now »
	Create a 'Freezing Line' Learn how to use the Palette Editor to customize contour layers in Weather Defender. In this tutorial, we create a Freezine Line on the Temperature layer, indicating the precise location of freezing temperatures. (8:01)  Watch Now »
	Receive Weather Alerts by E-mail or Cellphone Weather Defender can be configured to deliver weather alerts in a variety of ways. Learn how to send weather alerts to an e-mail address or cell phone text message. (7:32)  Watch Now »
	Import a List of Custom Locations The Add Point tool is the easiest way to add custom locations to your map -- and keep tab on family or friends. But what if you have a long list of locations? This tutorial shows how you to import a table of locations to your map in one fell swoop. (9:26)  Watch Now »

 Do you have a tutorial suggestion? We'd love to hear about it!

"As a public servant in Morrison County I'm concerned that we provide our residents with the best information possible to enable them to adequately prepare in a timely fashion for what might be coming - whether it is flood, winter storms, severe thunder/lightning storms, tornados or whatever.  Our Public Safety and Public Works personnel need to be able to respond rapidly and strategically to changing conditions as well, and weather related events can play a big part in their ability to do so.

"One of our recent areas of focus is bringing the weather down to street and parcel level.  This gives us the ability to identify specific locations where there might be high concentrations of people in the path of a system, giving law enforcement and other agencies the ability to provide a more advanced notice than might otherwise be given - possibly saving lives.  Being able to add our own layers of data as an overlay to Weather Defender could potentially help us in this regard."

Mike Disher
Director of Technology Services
Morrison County, Minnesota

Today we are kicking off our new Link Exchange program at WeatherDefender.com!  This is exciting news for us and all our fellow weather buffs. To do this, we've created a special section of our site dedicated to housing links to weather resources and preparedness-related websites.

So, if you would like to have your link featured on our website, please visit our link submission page:

http://www.weatherdefender.com/LinkExchange.aspx

We will post links on a first-come, first-serve basis so if you want your site listed please be sure to submit your website details on our Link Exchange Form today!

Thanks and we look forward to your help in creating a library of helpful links for our visitors.

When we at SWIFT Weather equipped our latest version of Weather Defender 1.1 with the ability to track natural disasters on a global scale, we had no idea the kind of devastation that would happen just a few months later. As our customers already know, the Ranger Weather Map in Weather Defender 1.1 includes an Earthquakes tracking layer, as shown here:

Unfortunately, we have no way to predict where earthquakes will strike next. All we can do is offer our support after the fact to those who need it most. That is why we have contributed to the American Red Cross Haiti Reflief Fund, and we would encourage anyone who is able to contribute what they can:

Haiti Relief Fund