I’ve used wundergound.com for my weather forecasts for over 14 years. The url was originally a .edu. Unfortunately, I can’t recall which university it was.
I was watching the news recently and their segment on severe weather had comments from Weather Underground.
So what is Weather Underground? Is it a independent meteorological organization? Is it still affiliated with a University?
I have tried google. All that gives is the weather forecast web site. They don’t even mention the old URL that was a .edu or any history.
WAG - I always thought this was a Graduate Studies, Science project at a University. I can imagine some crusty professor in tweed & a bow tie running this with his students. That’s just based on their old URL. Google is not saying much.
It was started as a project of the University of Michigan which put a bunch of weather databases on the Internet beginning in the early 1990s. It’s now a for-profit enterprise.
So it was a University project. I remember that .edu url like it was yesterday. Apparently it was the early nineties when I first got my weather from there.
Wasted all that time on Google for nothing. Didn’t even think to look at “About us”
thanks.
We could use Wayback machine to see any early page. But, we need the old .edu URL.
The professor that helped start Weather Underground in the early 90’s is still teaching. This guys class sounds like something I’d love. I always enjoyed science classes. http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2007/Sep/samson.php
Hey, who else used to use telnet to get the “madlab” forecast. Or at least that’s how I remember it. madlab.umich.edu, I think?
The telnet service is still available via rainmaker.wunderground.com, and is basically indistinguishable from the service I used in the mid 90’s at college.