Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane. But TechCrunch applauds the move from the Weather Channel’s perspective: “This deal will put Weather Underground’s awesome technology to use on a much bigger stage, bringing better information to a large number of people - which is almost always a good thing. Weather Undergrounds Personal Weather Station Network takes on Gardening. The New York Times points out that some hard-core Weather Underground enthusiasts hold “sour views” of the Weather Channel, which is owned by a group that includes Comcast and Bain Capital. With a swelling user base around the globe, and with demands for our services to be made available across so many new digital platforms like mobile phones and tablets, the board recognized the need for an even greater injection of resources, and the decision was made to merge with The Weather Channel Companies. He’ll keep blogging on wunderground, and his posts will also begin to appear on in the coming months. The formal company dates back to 1995, when it spun out of UM and launched on the web.Weather Underground’s website,, will continue to operate in its current form, co-founder Jeff Masters said in a post on his popular and long-running blog. Reviewers complaining about Weather Underground most frequently mention weather channel, day forecast, and many years problems. Weather Underground started at the University of Michigan in 1991 as “a menu-based telnet interface.” The name came from, yes, the radical student group that also came from that university and took its name from Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. TWC is by far the larger with 49.8 million uniques compared to Weather Underground’s 9.8 million TWC also has the largest weather presence online, already more than double Weather Bug, the next largest. The Weather Channel Companies is a joint venture of NBC Universal and PE firms Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group.ĬomScore pegs the unduplicated number for the sites at 54.6 million uniques based on May 2012 traffic. Weather Underground fits squarely in that second bucket. His charge: to invest more in programming, digital assets and international expansion. It’s the latest move for Chairman and CEO David Kenny, who was hired in January in a surprise leadership change.
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