Customizable weather analysis system of user-specified notification thresholds

Abstract

A system and method for outputting weather data associated with a user-specified location based on a user-specified weather inquiry, including weather data output based on user-specified weather conditions, locations output based on a user-specified weather inquiry, notifications output regarding weather-related warnings, and notifications output based on weather-related notification thresholds.

76 . The method of claim  75 , wherein the weather data conditions include a plurality of current, historical, and forecasted weather conditions and a plurality of weather-related warnings. 
     
     
         77 . The method of claim  75 , wherein the weather conditions include a plurality of weather-related warnings, the weather-related warnings including river flood warnings, thunderstorm watch boxes, tornado watch boxes, mesoscale discussions, polygon warnings, zone/country warnings, outlooks, advisories, watches, special weather statements, lightning warnings, thunderstorm warnings, heavy rain warnings, high wind warnings, high or low temperature warnings, local storm reports, earthquakes, or hurricane impact forecasts. 
     
     
         78 - 79 . (canceled) 
     
     
         80 . The method of claim  75 , further comprising:
 receiving via a network a location of a mobile computer system from the mobile computer system, the location of the mobile computer system determined by a location detection unit configured to determine the location of the mobile computer system; and   determining the user-specified location based on a location of a mobile computer system.   
     
     
         81 - 128 . (canceled) 
     
     
         129 . The method of claim  75 , further comprising:
 repeatedly receiving updated weather data; and   automatically and repeatedly determining if the updated weather data includes weather data indicating that the at least one user-specified weather condition is less than, equal to, or greater than the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location.   
     
     
         130 . (canceled) 
     
     
         131 . The method of claim  75 , wherein the user-specified procedure is specified by a first user and output to a second user. 
     
     
         132 . The method of claim  75 , further comprising:
 outputting the at least one user-specified procedure to the user via the graphical user interface.   
     
     
         133 . The method of claim  75 , further comprising:
 outputting the at least one user-specified procedure to the user via email, text message, smartphone widget, smartphone notification, or telephone message.   
     
     
         134 - 135 . (canceled) 
     
     
         136 . The method of claim  75 , wherein outputting at least one user-specified procedure comprises:
 outputting a notification that includes a procedure link, further comprising:   outputting the at least one user-specified procedure in response to user selection of the procedure link.   
     
     
         137 . The method of claim  75 , wherein outputting at least one user-specified procedure comprises outputting a notification that includes the at least one user-specified procedure in the notification. 
     
     
         138 . The method of claim  75 ,
 wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with one of a plurality recipients, the plurality of recipients including the user; and the method further comprises:   outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the user.   
     
     
         139 . The method of claim  75 ,
 wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with one of the plurality of weather conditions; and the method further comprises:   outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the at least one user-specified weather condition specified by the user-specified weather inquiry.   
     
     
         140 . The method of claim  75 , wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with a plurality of locations, the plurality of locations including the user-specified location; and the method further comprises:
 outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the user-specified location.   
     
     
         141 . The method of claim  75 ,
 wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with a plurality of user roles, the plurality of user roles including a role associated with the user; and the method further comprises:   outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the user role associated with the user.   
     
     
         142 . The method of claim  75 , further comprising:
 outputting an acknowledgement link to the user for the user to acknowledge receipt of the procedure;   receiving an acknowledgement in response to user selection of the acknowledgement link; and   storing the acknowledgement,   
     
     
         143 . The method of  claim 142 , further comprising:
 storing a plurality of user profiles associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of users including the user; and   outputting an indication of whether or not the acknowledgement of receipt of the procedure was received from the user to a second user via the user interface.   
     
     
         144 . The method of claim  75 , further comprising:
 storing a plurality of user profiles associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of users including the user;   determining if the user is authorized to acknowledge receipt of the procedure based on the user profile associated with the user;   outputting an acknowledgement link to the user for the user to acknowledge receipt of the notification procedure;   receiving an acknowledgement of receipt of the procedure in response to user selection of the acknowledgement link; and   storing the acknowledgement.   
     
     
         144 . The method of  claim 144 , further comprising:
 outputting an indication of whether or not the acknowledgement of receipt of the procedure was received from the user to the plurality of users via the user interface.   
     
     
         146 - 148 . (canceled) 
     
     
         149 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:
 receive a plurality of weather conditions associated with a plurality of geographic locations;   receive at least one user-specified location and at least one user-specified weather inquiry from a user via a graphical user interface, the user-specified weather inquiry comprising at least one user-specified weather condition of the plurality of weather conditions and a weather-related notification threshold associated with the at least one user-specified weather condition;   store one or more user-specified procedures as well as the user-specified location and the user-specified weather inquiry received from the user via the graphical user interface;   determine if the weather data indicates that the at least one user-specified weather condition is less than, equal to, or greater than the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location; and   output at least one of the user-specified procedures to the user in response to a determination that the weather data indicates that the at least one user-specified weather condition is:
 greater than or equal to the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location; or 
 less than or equal to the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location.