Being Weather Aware in you RV

Okay, let’s talk about weather. Weather while living full-time in your RV or just a weekend camping trip can be a little scary if you’re not prepared. We have been traveling and living full-time in our RV for almost 4 years. In that time, we have had some close calls with tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and tropical storms. But staying weather aware has prepared us for all those situations and we have been fortunate to not put ourselves in harms way.

We use the weather channel app, KOCO app, and Chime.  The weather channel app was already installed on our phones and it’s an easy free app to navigate. You can set it to your current location or type in future locations to see the weather information in the area you are headed.  The KOCO app was our local weather app when we lived in Oklahoma. This app does the same thing. Chime is a paid subscription…. We also find the local weather tv channels when we arrive at a new campsite. This helps us stay in tune with the local weather and most of the local channels provide a free app as well.

Once, there was a tropical storm predicted to hit Port Aransas, Texas while we were staying there. We didn’t want to pack up our rig to go with us because the locals all said it would be fine, but we also didn’t feel safe staying there with our kids and dogs in case it was worse than they were predicting. So, we pulled in our slides, made sure everything was locked and put away, we loaded up just us and an overnight bag and headed into San Antonio for the night to wait out the storm. Everything turned out to be okay and the storm did not do any damage but the way we see it is it’s better to be safe than sorry.

To wrap up this topic of weather in an RV we would just say be aware, be prepared, and always follow your gut to leave a potential threatening weather situation. That’s part of the beauty of having a house on wheels is you can always pack up and move on.