{"id":4415,"date":"2011-12-17T04:35:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2011-12-17T04:35:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T11:35:51","slug":"the-voice-of-noaa-weather-radio-all-hazards-sings-deck-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/the-voice-of-noaa-weather-radio-all-hazards-sings-deck-the-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"The voice of NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards sings Deck the Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4416\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4416\" title=\"NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/noaa-weather-radio-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/noaa-weather-radio-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/noaa-weather-radio-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/noaa-weather-radio.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weather radios provide life saving information when severe weather strikes. &#39;The voice of the National Weather Service&#39; can even sing Christmas carols.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is called &#8216;the voice of the National Weather Service&#8217; and provides critical and life saving information when severe weather strikes.\u00a0 &#8216;Tom&#8217; is one of the latest voices that you hear when listening to it and in the holiday spirit, NOAA had &#8216;Tom&#8217; sing a classic Christmas carol.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Listen to &#8216;Tom&#8217; sing Deck the Halls below<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NWR began in the late 1990s and now transmitters for the service allow coverage across most of the nation.\u00a0 When the weather is calm, listeners hear current conditions, forecasts and other weather related news.\u00a0 It is however when severe weather strikes that NWR reaches its real potential.<\/p>\n<p>Many of today&#8217;s radios can be programmed to turn on automatically and sound an alert when severe weather or another national emergency occurs.\u00a0 These alerts can make the difference between life and death, particularly when a fast developing situation like tornadoes occur.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/weather-radio.php\">What does NOAA Weather Radio sound like? Listen to our live stream<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have long extolled the virtues of the system and recommended that all homes should have them, particularly in places like Colorado that are prone to tornadoes.\u00a0 It can also provide critical information during other types of disasters like earthquakes, chemical spills, and AMBER alerts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tom&#8217; is one of the current text to speech voices of NOAA Weather Radio.\u00a0 He, along with &#8216;Donna&#8217; and &#8216;Javier&#8217; are the voices you hear when listening to the system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>A weather radio makes a great gift during the holiday season.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/gifts-for-the-weather-geeks-and-enthusiasts-on-your-list\">Check out some other great gift ideas for weather enthusiasts (Examiner.com)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/weather-radios-your-first-line-of-defense-against-extreme-weather\/\">More about weather radios &#8211; your first line of defense against extreme weather<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-yGJbkQulQw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-yGJbkQulQw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is called &#8216;the voice of the National Weather Service&#8217; and provides critical and life saving information when severe weather strikes.\u00a0 &#8216;Tom&#8217; is one of the latest voices that you hear when listening to it and in the holiday spirit, NOAA had &#8216;Tom&#8217; sing a classic Christmas carol. Listen to &#8216;Tom&#8217; sing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/the-voice-of-noaa-weather-radio-all-hazards-sings-deck-the-halls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The voice of NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards sings Deck the Halls<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}