The great British public are obsessed with the weather so it was no surprise when the lunchtime news ran a story about Weather Underground as a challenger to existing meteorological services.
Born out of a popular internet service from the early ’90s, the wunderground.com website was officially launched in 1995 and can comfortably lay claim to being the first online weather service.
What separates it from your standard TV weather though is not its age, its how they gather their information. Weather Underground has developed a network of some 13,000+ personal weather stations manned by amateur meteorologists – all collecting and sending back live, and uniquely local, data.
The site now supplies weather data to newspapers and TV news and is rumored to be in talks with Google about supply their weather info.
Eighteen years after it launched it’s nice to see the idea getting some coverage.
Site: www.wunderground.com
Q: What other services could be improved by access to real time local information?
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