In north America there are several government agency that broadcast weather forecasts and reports in the VHF band.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_radio
The closest broadcast station to me, transmits on 162.55 MHz as measured with my TinySA
The broadcast is narrow-band FM with 5 kHz of deviation:
Not many consumer products tune and receive weather radio.
How about modifying an existing FM radio to receive weather radio.
I have one of these low cost AM/FM radio solder kits: https://goughlui.com/2016/09/07/project-paeansonic-cf210sp-cd9088cd7642-amfm-radio-kit/
Its based on the clone of a modern version of the original TDA7000
This app note provides the theory of operation: https://www.cool386.com/tda7000/AN192.PDF
For narrow-band FM one should reduce the IF frequency to ~5 kHz (to improve the sensitivity of the FM quadrature demodulator) and reduce the IF bandwidth to reduce noise and improve selectivity.
In my case, I scaled up the IF capacitors by a factor of 10 ( or close enough I didn't have all the exact values)
I also replaced L1 on the input BPF with a hand wound 45 nH inductor.
For now I am using a TinySA as a local oscillator programed to synthesize an LO at a 7 kHz offset (162.453 MHz).
Eventually I will use an Si5351 as the local oscillator.
Its alive!
