If they do want to give us some warning it could start with strong winds, rain, etc before the dangerous storm hits. Then we get worried everytime it starts raining, not knowing if it will turn bad or not.
I feel like we need more info on this. Where is it being stored? For single player, is this being stored in the registry? (not from my testing). If you launch directly from Steam or Vortex does it pick up the setting or is that only thru the launcher?
I asked Pickysaurus (Nexus dev) to look...