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The only way to recieve wireless weather forecasts back in the day was to tune into your local radio or TV station. Today, Internet-connected devices put news about the latest storm at your fingertips, all the time.

MobiTV this week announced a deal with The Weather Channel to take mobile weather forecasting up a notch, by adding live streams of The Weather Channel cable station to its lineup.

With the new channel you can view 24-hour weather-related video that is similar to the programming reaching over 85 million cable households on your mobile handset. MobiTV says the Weather Channel offers video to meet viewers' interests and needs throughout the day, including the 5-day forecasts, weekend outlook, travel weather, and severe weather coverage.

At launch, the service will focus on national weather coverage that is most requested by consumers. The companies assert the channel will expand in scope and functionality over time. Perhaps personalized daily weather forecasts will soon be in the picture.

MobiTV is currently available to Sprint, Cingular Wireless/AT&T Wireless, and Midwest Wireless subscribers. It delivers live television from over a twenty channels for a flat fee of $10 per month.

In addition to The Weather Channel, bundled stations include MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News Now, NBC Mobile, FOX Sports, Discovery, TLC, C-SPAN, among other music, sports, fashion, and comedy channels.

The service streams television to phones at frame rates of around 15 frames per second (fps) on a 2.5G network (i.e. Sprint) and up to 20 fps or more on 3G networks (i.e. Cingular with an EVDO compatible handset).