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Here are several links to other weather sites suggested by Weathertech.
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1   Link   The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
Since 1982, The Weather Channel has brought timely weather information to the world.
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Beginning as a 24-hour, 7 day television network devoted entirely to weather, it has expanded across several mediums to bring the breaking weather to its viewers and users.

Cable Networks Through the WEATHER STAR ®, the immediate real-time relay of severe weather watches and warnings is the most vital service provided by The Weather Channel. Information from the National Weather Service, such as severe weather alerts and current conditions, is transmitted to custom equipment at each cable location, as are thousands of customized weather forecasts prepared by The Weather Channel meteorologists.

Internet
Consistently rated in the Top Five for News, Entertainment, and Information web sites by Media Metrix (formerly PC Meter), our Internet web site at www.weather.com features current conditions and forecasts for over 77,000 locations worldwide, along with local and regional radars.

Many maps and other features available on the domestic cable television are also at one's fingertips, along with weather-related news, educational material, a weather glossary, a storm encyclopedia, and seasonal features.

Weather Data
The Weather Channel can provide weather data, such as current conditions, five day forecasts, severe weather alerts and maps right to your company's web site.

We also have developed many new products for distributing weather data directly to you, such as:
Desktop Weather by The Weather Channel which delivers weather straight to you computer desktop. With NOTIFY! individuals can be alerted anywhere and anytime, of severe and changing weather. And you can get Radar and forecasts on Your Web Phone or your PDA.
Check back as we continue to develop new ways to distribute relevant weather data directly to you!

Radio
In over 250 radio markets across the United States, The Weather Channel Radio Network provides immediate information on severe weather and local forecasts for radio affiliates. Through radio partnerships, the recognition and reliability of The Weather Channel is available to listeners in a variety of local radio formats.
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2   Link   AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather Mission
To save lives, protect property, and help people to prosper, while expanding AccuWeather as a healthy and profitable business.
AccuWeather Vision
To be the world's best and most-used source of weather information.
AccuWeather Values
To achieve AccuWeather's mission, we require great people with great values. AccuWeather seeks to recruit, develop and retain people who are intelligent, innovative, and entrepreneurial, who take pride in their work, and who passionately share AccuWeather's values:
* Respect, honesty and trust
* Commitment and responsibility
* Collaboration and communication
* Quality and accuracy
* Service to internal and external customers
* Efficiency, productivity and achievement
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3   Link   Weather Underground
Weather for Everyone



Weather Underground is committed to delivering the most reliable, accurate weather information possible. Our state-of-the-art technology monitors conditions and forecasts for locations across the world, so you'll always find the weather information that you need.

In addition to providing free, real-time online weather information to millions of Web users around the world, Weather Underground is pleased to offer a variety of Newspaper Weather Services and Custom Site Weather Packages.

Company Background

In 1991, while working under the direction of Perry Samson at the University of Michigan, PhD candidate Jeff Masters wrote a menu-based telnet interface which displayed real-time weather information around the world. By 1992, the two servers his system used were rattling off their desks as "um-weather" became the most popular service on the Internet.

In 1993, Perry and Jeff recruited Jeff Ferguson and Alan Steremberg to help build a system to bring Internet weather into K-12 classrooms. Chris Schwerzler joined Alan in his work on the Mac gopher client, "Blue Skies," which won numerous awards for its interactive imagery and text information. In the interest of expanding "Blue Skies" to other platforms, Dave Brooks, author of the Windows "WS Gopher" client, developed "Blue Skies for Windows" in 1994. The growing Internet weather program was given the name Weather Underground, a reference to the 1960's radical group that also originated at the University of Michigan, which had taken its name from the lyrics to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."

During early 1995, Netscape's prime, Alan and Chris embarked upon the "Blue Skies for Java" project to replace the aging gopher client with a sleek web interface. "Blue Skies Java" was included in Sun Microsystems' first set of Java Success Stories and led to the development of a full fledged web weather service. At the same time, Michael McDonald, a web developer, was building a comprehensive database of weather related information and tropical weather links on the web, which he later integrated into the tropical storm section of the Weather Underground site.

Incorporating on the Web

In late spring of 1995, the Weather Underground, Inc. evolved as a separate commercial entity from the university. By fall, the official web site, www.wunderground.com, was released with daily forecasts and hourly conditions for 550 US cities. After announcing the new web site on the telnet service, traffic immediately soared, creating a substantial user base. During 1996 and 1997, Jeff, Alan, Chris, and Jeff transformed the site into a dynamic service where information was updated in real-time with several innovative new features. These included one of the first zip code searches, severe weather warnings and advisories, international conditions, marine weather, and detailed local forecasts. They also began developing custom weather sites for TV stations and Internet portals.

Weather Underground Today

The web site has never stood still and many new features have been added in recent years. Of particular note, Weather Underground has developed the world's largest network of personal weather stations (almost 10,000 stations in the US and over 3,000 across the rest of the world) that provides our site's users with the most localized weather conditions available. Embracing the community aspect of the web, we have developed WunderPhotos, a section where our members upload and share photographs of weather related content; our popular Blogs section allows members to post weather-related blogs in addition to Jeff Masters' widely-read WunderBlog.

In 2008, we launched WunderMaptm, the web's most interactive weather map, that allows users to choose from a number of different weather layers that are plotted on top of a dynamic map interface. Other popular features include a tornado tracking product, in-depth sports and ski weather and our Trip Planner application. The list is endless but we hope that you will take the time to delve deeper into our site and discover all of our weather products for yourself. 		776