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Site of the Week: Weather Underground

Some people think weather posts on blogs are boring...

... Not with the weather that we've been having world wide...

I've been recommending Weather Underground to friends for years... I first learned of it from a local Hell's Kitchen blogger. (The once prolific  Mr. Nosuch.)

Personally, I've been a paid supporter of Wunderground for years... I rely on their weather update emails constantly. When they say there will be a thunderstorm in midtown in 25 minutes?... They mean it.

This New York Times article highlights the Weather Underground's secret weapon: Volunteers

[One personal weather site in Alameda, CA] and over 20,000 like it worldwide are part of the largest network of weather stations ever assembled, according to the meteorological Web site Weather Underground.

The network is part of an audacious plan to crowd-source weather measurement and, Weather Underground hopes, to snatch viewers from its larger competitor, the Weather Channel’s Weather.com. In the last six months, Weather Underground has averaged about 14 million unique visitors a month in the United States, while Weather.com attracted about 42 million, according to Quantcast, an online metrics company.

 

Here's the latest Weather Underground forecast for Hell's Kitchen and vicinity...

Check em out... Bookmark em! Get alerts. All free.