Most of Weather Underground’s employees are based in San Francisco, and that office will become a Weather Channel regional office. "We see this as a great opportunity to grow." "Becoming a part of The Weather Channel Companies will enable us to strengthen what our users love about, our apps and our blogs," Weather Underground president Alan Steremberg said. With the rapid growth, came new demands, and Weather Underground needed more resources to keep up. But in the past three years, Weather Underground entered into a rapid period of growth that saw our staff more than double to 57 people,” he wrote. “We grew from six employees in 1999 to 20 in 2009. Wundergound has grown rapidly in the past three years, Masters wrote on his blog, The company, a spinoff of a University of Michigan project, took its name from a 1960s radical group that also formed at the University of Michigan. Masters wrote on his blog that the Weather Underground team missed registering as by just one month. As long as I continue doing what I do I’ll be in Michigan so there will be a Michigan presence.”įounders launched Wunderground, as it is known to its loyal followers, in 1995 when they claimed as the 2,000th domain name ever registered. “I’m going to continue working for the company as far into the future as I can see. “We anticipate we’ll keep it until October 2013 when the lease is up and then we’ll just see what happens,” he said. Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at Weather Underground, said the future of the Ann Arbor office is unclear. Weather Underground was founded in Ann Arbor in 1995, and still operates an office on North Fifth Avenue with seven employees. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the process is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks.
The Weather Channel Companies announced Monday that they have completed an agreement to acquire weather website Weather Underground. Melanie Maxwell | Disclosure: uses Weather Underground as the weather source for our site. Weather Underground will continue watching and reporting on the weather at as well as contributing data and content to The Weather Channel and
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