The first tropical cyclone of the season has officially arrived, bringing rain in the northeast, east, southeast and even central Mexico. About this subject Tropical Storm Alberto. The National Weather Service declared the tropical storm formed after spending several days as a potential temporary hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico.

Tropical Storm Alberto is expected to make landfall early Thursday morning. According to forecasts, what will cause a hurricane? heavy rains This may also be accompanied by electric shock and possibly hail, our colleagues at Xataka México report. It is important to take precautions against storms and blizzards.

How to set an alarm on your mobile phone to let you know if it’s going to rain?

The National Weather Service predicts:

• heavy rains in: Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Puebla
• heavy rains in: Zacatecas, Querétaro, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche and Quintana Roo
• Very heavy rains in: Guanajuato, Tlaxcala and Yucatán
• Heavy rains and showers at: Mexico City, State of Mexico and Morelos

It is important to take precautions as there may be a risk of flooding in some areas.

If you want Find out as soon as possible if it will rainor if a storm has started, you can set an alarm on your Android smartphone by following one of the two methods below:

Using the Rain Alarm app

APPLICATION rain alarm It’s available directly on the Google Play Store at this link and, as the name suggests, it will alert you when a storm is approaching your location.

Rain alarm allows Set a notification on your smartphone when a storm approaches. It also lets you know the weather forecast. The application offers more functions and eliminates ads if we pay a subscription, but with the free version we can set alarms.

After installing the app and specifying your location, try going to the settings menu and, among other preferences, try configuring the data to be expressed in Celsius and kilometers per hour.

Using the IFTTT app

IFTTT (If This Then That or “If this, then that”) is a tool that, among many other functions, allows us to configure alarms and notifications according to different parameters.

In this case, we will create an alarm for the application to tell us whether it is raining or not:

• We download the IFTTT application from Google Play Store
• Click on “If This” underground weather
• We choose from the available options “The current situation changes as follows:” and then we select “Rain”, verifying that the location is correct
• Then we select “Then this” Notifications and we can customize the message we receive

When the process is completed, an alarm will be created. Yes, this alarm will tell us if it has started to rain, but when choosing the location we can often choose an area close to where we are and if it has started to rain there, we can predict that it will rain where we are in the near future. .

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