But TechCrunch applauds the move from the Weather Channel’s perspective: “This deal will put Weather Underground’s awesome technology to use on a much bigger stage, bringing better information to a large number of people - which is almost always a good thing. The New York Times points out that some hard-core Weather Underground enthusiasts hold “sour views” of the Weather Channel, which is owned by a group that includes Comcast and Bain Capital. London, England, United Kingdom Weather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel London, England, United Kingdom As of 11:57 pm BST 53° Mostly Cloudy Day 65° Night 50°. 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. This page uses Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported-licensed content from Wikipedia.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. The channel is currently inactive, with their last upload being on May 26, 2017.

The channel uploaded weather-related videos and forecast footage from their television channel. The channel was created on June 26, 2006, and the first video was uploaded on April 6, 2007.

In 2012, The Weather Channel announced it would acquire Weather Underground, becoming a part of The Weather Channel Companies, LLC, later renamed The Weather Company. In 1995, the service became a commercial entity separate from the university, grown to provide weather for print sources. Masters, a doctoral candidate in meteorology at the university, wrote a Telnet interface which displayed real-time weather worldwide. The name of the weather service is a reference to the militant student group of the same name.

It was founded as an offshoot of the University of Michigan's weather database. Weather Underground is an American weather service and a subsidiary of The Weather Channel.

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