With a swelling user base around the globe, and with demands for our services to be made available across so many new digital platforms like mobile phones and tablets, the board recognized the need for an even greater injection of resources, and the decision was made to merge with The Weather Channel Companies. He’ll keep blogging on wunderground, and his posts will also begin to appear on in the coming months. “But we’ll have a lot more resources to do fun things.Weather Underground’s website,, will continue to operate in its current form, co-founder Jeff Masters said in a post on his popular and long-running blog. “Weather Underground users can expect to see more of the same,” said Weather Underground president Alan Steremberg. Weather Channel is owned by Bain Capital, the Blackstone Group and Comcast.ĭavid Kenny, chairman and CEO of the Weather Channel Companies, said Monday in an interview with the Times that he admires Weather Underground’s “hard-core audience,” some of whom see Weather Channel as too advertising-dependent.īut the indie vibe of Weather Underground, founded in 1995 at the University of Michigan, is expected to remain intact: according to Kenny, the site would be its own entity while offering use of its data for Weather Channel forecasts. No details on the price of purchase were given. (Cue angry online detractors a la Mike Tucker, a computer professional from New Hampshire, who wrote on Facebook: “Nooooooooooooooooo! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”)

Weather Underground devotees view the acquisition, which is expected to be completed in the coming weeks, as selling out to a larger, more commercial competitor who threatens to tamper with the quality of the product.

STORY: Weather Channel Acquires Weather UndergroundĪs the Times notes, the Weather Channel and Weather Underground attract a different audience: the former is viewed as a destination for people who want to know whether they should bring an umbrella with them on the way to work meanwhile, the latter is a magnet for the geekiest of weather data enthusiasts.

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