Weather Underground is a commercial organization that provides free, real-time weather information via the Internet. The website is available in many languages.

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, which displayed real-time weather information around the world. By 1992, the two servers that they used became the most popular service on the Internet at that time.

In 1993 they initiated a project to bring Internet weather into K-12 classrooms. The growing Internet weather program was given the name "The Weather Underground", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 1960s radical communist group that also originated at the University of Michigan.

In late spring of 1995, the Weather Underground, Inc. evolved as a separate commercial entity from the university. It has grown to provide weather for print sources as well as online. In 2005 Weather Underground became the weather provider for Associated Press.

External links

• http://www.wunderground.com

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