I have one of these radios myself. Small handheld, 2 AA batteries, and a specific channel will give constant weather info thru NOAA. I like to know when serious wind and rain are headed my way and this works for me. By the way, mine is a Cobra microtalk. 2 mile range.

My bad!!! Sorry I blew up.

I have a set of high end motorola radios I carry w/ me when hunting, my dad carries the other one, we have 2 others for guests that may come to hunt. I also have an ear piece like the cell phone ones you see. When I am curious as to weather, I pull out the ear piece, and turn on the weather service and it tells me all that specific to the county I am in. It works great. I don't hunt anymore without my two way, even if i don't turn it on it's in the pack somewhere.

YUP, I have a hand held weather forecaster, it works except when I get it caught in the zipper putting it away.[&:]