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TWC Buys Weather Underground

Probably means we can expect to begin seeing larger advertisements including TWC's shows which have absolutely nothing to do with weather.
 
If you liked Weather Underground, then you can continue to get weather from the horse's mouth from NOAA.gov. Still works. And no large ads for Coast Guard: Alaska.

-crainbebo
 
What I liked about Weather Undergorund was the commentary on the weather. For 'just the facts' I much prefer NOAA.
 
I always went to Weather Underground. Its an easier site to navigate, and had more of the data without as much fluff.

Too bad to see. Its like there just can't be any competing stuff anymore. One entity has to buy up everything around them and homogenize it so there is no variety or choices anymore.
 
Weather Underground? Didn't the Tea Party or NeoCons on Fox News use this name to Go after Bill Ayers and President Obama in 2008?

I thought Fox News and Glenn Beck invented this name. I had no idea it really meant they talk about clouds, Low Pressure, High Pressure from the Atmosphere.
 
Maybe with any luck some other independent organisation will pick up the NOAA Radio streams that "Wunderground" have been hosting for years. Shame if we lost that to ever-increasing ¢orporate greed.
 
recto101 said:
Weather Underground? Didn't the Tea Party or NeoCons on Fox News use this name to Go after Bill Ayers and President Obama in 2008?

I thought Fox News and Glenn Beck invented this name. I had no idea it really meant they talk about clouds, Low Pressure, High Pressure from the Atmosphere.
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"The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
 
landtuna said:
"The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization. Originally called Weatherman, the group became known colloquially as the Weathermen although its full name, as given in official communiques, was the Weather Underground Organization or WUO. Weatherman first organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
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Wunderground's creator(s) probably are latter day sympathizers with this bunch.

ixnay
 
Yeah, I got the reference, and I remember how that group got its name, as confirmed by that Wiki article:

It took its name from the lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", from the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
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It should be noted that for those of you who prefer info directly from the National Weather Service, its website just completed a design overhaul that looks to be much cleaner and even customizable based on location - http://www.weather.gov
 
But it seems to require *at least* a 1024*768 display to work properly. Frankly I hate the "redesign"; it's graphics-intensive and bogs my modem. They also don't appear to give an option to use the "old" layout, either, like the FCC at least knew to do with their site. Major design blunder.

The whole thing seems to be a victim of poor design. In effect, it's a solution in search of a problem.
 
recto101 said:
Weather Underground? Didn't the Tea Party or NeoCons on Fox News use this name to Go after Bill Ayers and President Obama in 2008?

I thought Fox News and Glenn Beck invented this name. I had no idea it really meant they talk about clouds, Low Pressure, High Pressure from the Atmosphere.
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It goes back much further than that. It was a group that protested the Vietnam war.
 
whitfm said:
It should be noted that for those of you who prefer info directly from the National Weather Service, its website just completed a design overhaul that looks to be much cleaner and even customizable based on location - http://www.weather.gov
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Also, NOAA Weather Radio, automated voices and all, is just as informative as the human beings on TWC, if not more so.
 
DToTheJ said:
whitfm said:
It should be noted that for those of you who prefer info directly from the National Weather Service, its website just completed a design overhaul that looks to be much cleaner and even customizable based on location - http://www.weather.gov
Click to expand...

Also, NOAA Weather Radio, automated voices and all, is just as informative as the human beings on TWC, if not more so.
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When the Weather Channel is actually doing weather, that is.
 
Speaking of Accuweather, KCPQ took off their Accuweather channel about a month ago.

I agree with the poster that wanted NWR stations to stay online for people to listen to. I don't remember my semi-local WWG24 Puget Sound Marine on there however. But KHB60 [Seattle] and WXM62 [Olympia] were on Wunderground from time to time.

-crainbebo
 
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