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Weather Underground, Inc.
TypeCorporation
Founded1995
HeadquartersAnn Arbor, Michigan, Flag of the United States United States
WebsiteWeather Underground Website

Weather Underground is a commercial weather service that provides real-time weather information via the Internet. A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Weather Underground provides weather reports for most major cities in the world on its Web site, as well as local weather reports for newspapers and Web sites. Most of its United States information comes from the National Weather Service (NWS), as information from that agency is within the public domain by federal law. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The National Weather Service ( NWS) once known as the Weather Bureau is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Web site is available in many languages, and an ad-free version of the site with additional features is available for an annual fee. Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand

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History

Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it was founded in 1995 as an offshoot of the University of Michigan's Internet weather database. Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 1960s militant radical leftist student group the Weather Underground, which also originated at the University of Michigan. Tongue-in-cheek is a term used to refer to humor in which a statement or an entire fictional work is not meant to be taken seriously but its lack of seriousness is subtle For the British newspaper and Marxist organization see Militant tendency. Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American Radical left organization

Jeff Masters, a PhD candidate in meteorology at the University of Michigan, working under the direction of Professor Perry Samson, wrote a menu-based telnet interface in 1991 that displayed real-time weather information around the world. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Meteorology (from Greek grc μετέωρος metéōros, "high in the sky" and grc -λογία -logia) is the Interdisciplinary The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Telnet ( Tel ecommunication net work is a Network protocol used on the Internet or local area network (LAN connections By 1992, the two servers they used are claimed to have been the most popular service on the Internet. In 1993 they initiated a project to bring Internet weather into K-12 classrooms. K–12 (pronounced "kay through twelve" "kay to twelve" or just "kay twelve" a designation for the sum of primary and Secondary education

In 1995 the Weather Underground, Inc. evolved as a commercial entity separate from the university. [1] It has grown to provide weather for print sources, in addition to its online presence. In 2005 the Weather Underground became the weather provider for the Associated Press; WU also provides weather reports for some newspapers (including the San Francisco Chronicle) and the Google search engine. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online

Blog

Blogs are one of the main features in Weather Underground, allowing users of the site to create blogs about weather, everyday life and anything else. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of There are many actual meteorologists that blog on the Web site, such as Ed Hanna, chief meteorologist of WFMZ-TV. WFMZ-TV is a general interest independent television station in Allentown Pennsylvania, which is part of the Philadelphia DMA. Dr. Jeff Masters started the first blog on the April 14, 2005,[2] and he is now posting blog entries every week. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Products

The Weather Undergound also provides an outlet for members having personal weather station (PWS) to provide weather observation detail to the internet community. A personal weather station is a set of Weather measuring instruments operated by a private individual club association or even business (where obtaining and distributing weather [3] They distribute Internet radio feeds of NOAA Weather Radio stations from across the country, as provided by users. Internet radio (also known as web radio, net radio, streaming radio and e-radio) is an audio Broadcasting service transmitted via NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio is a network of Radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information directly from a nearby National Weather Service (NWS The Associated Press uses Weather Underground to provide national weather summaries. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio [4]

References

  1. ^ Weather Underground, Inc. The First Internet Weather Service. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
  2. ^ Weather Underground, Inc. Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
  3. ^ Weather Underground, Inc. Personal Weather Station. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
  4. ^ WEATHER UNDERGROUND For The Associated Press. The Nation's Weather. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop

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