Weather, at a microclimate level. Discover a truly accurate forecast, with real-time and hyper-local weather news and updates. With weather data from over 250,000 personal weather stations and a proprietary forecast model, Weather Underground gives you the most precise weather forecast at a hyper-local level. Weather Underground provides local & long range Weather Forecast, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide.
WebsiteWeather Underground is a commercial service providing real-time over the. Weather Underground provides weather reports for most major cities across the world on its Web site, as well as local weather reports for newspapers and third-party sites. Its information comes from the (NWS), and over 250,000 (PWS). The site is available in many languages, and customers can access an version of the site with additional features for an annual fee.
Weather Underground is owned by, a subsidiary of. Contents.History The company is based in, and was founded in 1995 as an offshoot of the Internet weather database. The name is a reference to the 1960s student group the, which also originated at the University of Michigan.Jeff Masters, a candidate in at the University of Michigan working under the direction of Professor Perry Samson, wrote a menu-based interface in 1991 that displayed weather information around the world. In 1993, they recruited Alan Steremberg and initiated a project to bring Internet weather into classrooms. Weather Underground president Alan Steremberg wrote 'Blue Skies' for the project, a graphical Mac client, which won several awards. When the Mosaic Web browser appeared, this provided a natural transition from 'Blue Skies' to the Web.
The original logo, used from 1997 through 2014In 1995 Weather Underground Inc. Became a commercial entity separate from the university. It has grown to provide weather for print sources, in addition to its online presence. In 2005, Weather Underground became the weather provider for the; Weather Underground also provides weather reports for some newspapers, including the and the search engine. Steremberg also worked on the early development of the Google search engine with Larry Page and Sergey Brin.In October 2008, Jeff Masters reported that the site was No. 2 for Internet weather information in 2008.In February 2010, Weather Underground launched FullScreenWeather.com, a full screen weather Web tool with integrated mapping and mobile device use in mind.On July 2, 2012, announced that it would acquire Weather Underground, which would become operated as part of The Weather Channel Companies, LLC, which was later renamed 'The Weather Company'. The Weather Underground Web site continues to operate as a separate entity from The Weather Channel primary site, with its existing staff retained.
Third-party providers and rate the site as the 117th and 98th most-visited site in the United States, respectively, as of July 2015. SimilarWeb rates the site as the second most visited weather website globally, attracting more than 47 million visitors per month. The Weather Company also uses the site's San Francisco headquarters as a regional office.The site popularity also helped launch a television show hosted by meteorologist, which airs on from 5 p.m. ET, except during storm coverage; in which case the show is extended to 9 p.m. Or 10 p.m.On October 28, 2015, Jeff Masters noted that IBM had officially announced an agreement to acquire, mobile and cloud-based Web properties, including Weather Underground, WSI, weather.com, and also the Weather Company brand.
The Weather Channel television service remained a separate entity, later sold to in 2018. The deal was finalized on January 29, 2016.On October 3, 2019, Jeff Masters announced that he will be leaving Weather Underground. Blogs Web logs was one of the main features in Weather Underground, allowing users of the site to create blogs about weather, everyday life and anything else. Jeff Masters started the first blog on April 14, 2005, and he posts blog entries nearly every day. From 2007 through early 2017 wrote blogs on and societal response, with new entries on a weekly basis.On October 14, 2016, the Wunderblog announced that it would be changing their name to Category 6, a name suggested by Jeff Masters. They decided on the name, because it 'alludes to our deep fascination with all types of weather and climate extremes, including the many important facets of our changing climate', and 'will provide all the insight and expert analysis needed to put the extreme events of our evolving 21st-century climate into context.' On April 3, 2017 Weather Underground ended all Member blogs, WUMail, SMS alerts, NOAA Weather Radio rebroadcast and Aviation.
As part of this transition, Category 6 will get a new look. All posts by Jeff Masters, Bob Henson and Weather Underground featured bloggers were moved to Category 6. Users can no longer contact each other or have blogs, nor are they permitted to question or criticize the opinions of Masters and Henson in the comment section.Services Weather Underground also uses observations from members with automated (PWS). Weather Underground uses observations from over 250,000 personal weather stations worldwide.The Weather Underground's WunderMap overlays weather data from personal weather stations and official NWS stations on a Mapbox Map base and provides many interactive and dynamically updated weather and environmental layers. On November 15, 2017, users were notified by email that their worldwide, user-provided weather cameras would cease to be available on December 15, 2017.
However, on December 11, 2017 users received another email from Weather Underground announcing that they were reversing their position and would not be discontinuing the service based on significant user feedback.The service previously distributed feeds of stations from across the country, as provided by users, and had a.The uses Weather Underground to provide national weather summaries.Weather Underground has several extensions and applications for, and including FullScreenWeather.com, a redirect to a full screen weather viewer tied into OpenStreetMap. There was an app developed for devices, which has been deleted.In February 2015, Weather Underground released an app called Storm.
This app is universal, and can be used on both iPhone and iPad. Other apps by Weather Underground include WunderStation for iPad and WunderMap for. In 2017, Weather Underground removed support for 'Storm,' in favor of the 'Storm Radar' app released by The Weather Channel Interactive in June 2017.On December 31, 2018, Weather Underground ceased offering its popular (API) for weather data, further reducing the breadth of its services.On September 10, 2019, Weather Underground announced the discontinuation of its Email Forecast Program as of October 1, 2019, continuing the reduction in services noted above. See also.References.
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Learn more about the former Weathermen featured in THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, and find out what they’re doing now.Bernardine DohrnPart of the leadership of the Weather Underground, Dohrn was considered the organization’s figurehead. She spent the 1970s living underground and was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Today, Dohrn is an associate professor and director at Northwestern University's Children and Justice Center.Mark RuddRudd was best known for his role in the 1968 Columbia protests. As part of the Weather Underground's leadership, he lived underground for several years during the 1970s. He now teaches at a junior college in New Mexico.Brian FlanaganA former member of the Weather Underground, Flanagan is currently a bar-owner in New York City.David GilbertWhen the organization dismantled, Gilbert joined the Black Liberation Army and plunged deeper into revolutionary violence. He is currently serving a life sentence in New York’s Attica Correctional Facility for his role in a 1981 robbery gone awry, committed with his wife and fellow ex-Weatherman Kathy Boudin.Bill AyersA central figure in the Weathermen, Ayers lived underground for ten years, an experience he wrote about in his memoir, Fugitive Days. Now married to Dohrn, Ayers is currently a school reform activist and a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Naomi JaffeA former member of the Weather Underground, Jaffe currently lives in Albany, New York, and is executive director of a foundation that supports women's activism.Laura WhitehornA former member of the Weather Underground, Whitehorn now lives in New York City and is active in a wide range of progressive causes.