One thing I plan to do with this site is share other websites that I use regularly. I use Wikipedia a lot and essentially everyone already knows about it, so I feel like Wikipedia almost goes without saying. Another site that I use a lot to check the weather and get an idea of weather predictions is Weather Underground. When you go to the site you can search for your location and it takes you to the current weather.
If I want to know the predictions for later in the day, I check the hourly tab.
I also like to look at the map. Typically I check the radar, satellite, fronts, and windstream boxes to display them on the map.
There didn’t happen to be a lot going on locally this day, so I zoomed out to illustrate the radar and weather front over the Atlantic.
The origin of the Weather Underground name is unusual. Today it is a subsidiary of The Weather Company, which in turn is a subsidiary of IBM. It started off before that at the University of Michigan and is named after The Weather Underground, a far-left 1960s militant organization that conducted a bombing campaign in opposition to the Vietnam War and was also founded at the University of Michigan. The organization was named after a line in a song by Bob Dylan, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”. It is surprising that the website today uses this name with its history, which brings to mind the words of another Dylan verse, “The Times They Are a-Changin”.
Links
- Weather Underground website, https://www.wunderground.com/
- Wikipedia article about the company, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_(weather_service)
- Wikipedia article about The Weather Underground organization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
- Wikipedia article about Bob Dylan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
Media
The images in this post are used under “fair use”. I will remove them if I am requested to do so by the Weather Underground or its parent companies.
- Fair use article on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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