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They seem a bit overkill to me.

It's currently monsoon season for us, which means rain every afternoon--and generally, lots of it coming down hard. I was at my son's Taekwondo practice last week and one of the moms there apparently had this, as her phone was going off with the alert literally every minute for about 10-15 minutes. It was quite aggravating.

**Edit** I really think this is pretty pointless in Arizona. The only "bad weather" we get is monsoon season, and monsoon season is like clockwork. You know exactly what time the rain (or dust storms) are going to come rolling in...every day. So, needing to be "alerted" to this fact is kinda unnecessary unless you're brand new here and have never been through monsoon season.