Weather

Weather Underground Radio StreamsWeather Underground provided a free service to host all of these streams so you could listen into important weather bulletins over the Internet. Weather Underground was purchased by the Weather.com parent company The Weather Company in 2012 and then IBM purchased The Weather Company in 2016. Weather Underground moved all of their services over to Amazon Web Services and canned a few legacy products including the NOAA Weather Radio streams. ...

IBM announced earlier this week that they're buying the Weather Channel's business to business, mobile, and cloud-based properties. One of these is my favorite place to find weather forecasts - Weather Underground. I've been a user of Weather Underground and also uploading my house's weather station data to the site for over 13 years. I'm not sure what this news ultimately means for WU. NBC dumped money into the site a while back and modernized the user experience - although I'm not sure how much usefulness was added. I'm hoping that IBM buying the properties means a continued interest in open and crowd-sourced weather data source. ...

Enjoy chasing storms from your couch like me? There's a great app called "TVNweather Live Storm Chasing" that I've been using to watch live streams from actual storm chasers out in the field. You'll see names like Reed Timmer (TornadoVideos.net) and the team running the Dominator 2. TVNweather Live Storm Chasing for iOS The app itself needs some work with stability, but the collection of active streams is incredibly handy and fun to watch. An Android version is coming soon as well. Until then you can also watch on their site at http://tvnweather.com/live.