ATLANTA -- Starting this week, most Americans will be able to get  severe weather warnings sent straight to their cell phones, no matter where they are in the country.

The free Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are a partnership between the National Weather Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

They're also known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) or Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN).

And most people don't have to do anything to get the warnings. 

Will it come to my phone?
You will have to have a WEA capable phone in order to receive them. Not all providers are capable of issuing these alerts. The ones that are include AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, Cellcom, Sprint Nextel, Verizon, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular.

Weather looks to be dry for much of this week as temperatures rise as we head toward the weekend. Temps today will be at or a little above normal. We have a forecast high of 88. Pretty much the same for Tuesday.

A ridge should remain intact over the southeast allowing the sunshine to stick around through roughly Thursday. A front is forecast to move into our area bring a chance for precipitation going into the Friday. Also look for temperatures to begin to warm up, low 90s expected by Wednesday and Thursday.

And I thought this was interesting enough to share……research on how birds response to weather. Take a look at this click from a recent article I found.

After a hurricane or earthquake, people often band together and cooperate to deal with the recovery.

We've been spoiled this weekend.  We've had below average temperatures.  The mornings have been refreshing with lows about 5 degrees lower than average.