Weather Underground's mission is to figure out all the different ways people want to know about weather. But the site's users are accustomed to the name, said president Alan Steremberg, and few people except newspaper editors remember anymore what it once stood for. The technology that made the San Francisco company possible was developed in 1991 by professors at the University of Michigan and is named, perhaps unfortunately, after a group of 1960s radicals. It was Subterranean Homesick Blues, one of his most famous songs.'The way the Internet makes things meaningful is to create a community,' said John Celenza, who used to program for Weather Underground and is now a graduate student at Stanford. It loosely gets its title from a crazy group of militant college students in the early 1970's, who derived the name 'Weatherman', originally, from a line in aīob Dylan song. What started out as an American university project became a successful business website. That means Weather Underground gets its support from Go ahead and give it a go.įormally known as the Weather Underground, it provides a commercial site which gives free weather data and forecasts. Site will also supply an underground weather report for your location.

They work better than standard meteorological maps in some ways because they appear for each hour rather than every six hours. The maps help greatly in tracking storms and large features as they drift across the landscape. Jet stream analysis from Wunderground Weather.

If you want to dig a little deeper, you can also get wind field (that is speed and direction) maps, dewpoint maps, as well as visibility, satellite pics and a recent

This gives you even more flexibility and precision in the data you choose to use. In more recent years, the Weather Underground has added a feature called the Wundermap to their website. This great weather web site provides real time animated maps of recent temperatures over a geographic area of your choice. USA, Canada, South America, Australia and even Antarctica if you please. Want to see the temperatures all over Europe (for instance) at once? This handy map website for world weather even lets you animate weather plots so you can watch trends.

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