Weather Underground Launches the Most User-Friendly, Interactive Weather Map Available on the Internet
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2008 - Weather Underground, the nation's first online provider of weather related content, today announced the availability of its new interactive weather map. Sharing its namesake with the website, the WunderMaptm is an interactive visual display of weather information that is plotted and overlaid on a map interface. Users can choose from a variety of weather layers, including animated radar, current conditions, severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings, live webcam images, and animated infrared or visible satellite imagery showing cloud coverage.
The interactive WunderMaptm feature can be accessed from the WunderMaptm link on the main page of www.wunderground.com or directly at the following link http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap. Users will find the new feature useful in that it provides a meaningful and uniform representation of multiple types of weather data in an easy to use, interactive format. The level of user-interactivity that can be achieved with the WunderMaptm makes it a powerful tool for avid meteorologists, while still maintaining a clean and intuitive design for the casual weather observer.
"We have created the most comprehensive, user-friendly interactive weather map available," said Alan Steremberg, president and co-founder of Weather Underground. "No other on-line weather map offers such a range of options/layers that can be overlaid or taken away as directed by the user. Someone can select to see only the radar loop or they can choose to view the temperature readings from the Personal Weather Stations in a given area."
In addition to the new WunderMaptm feature, Weather Underground currently offers a comprehensive suite of weather related services, including the recently announced sports weather feature, streaming weather radio feature, personal WebCams, Wunder Photos, and the Personal Weather Station (PWS) network, which allows users to link their home-based automated weather stations to the Weather Underground community. Thousands of station owners already participate in the Weather Underground worldwide network, allowing the company to provide accurate and up-to-the-minute weather information.
About Weather Underground
The nation's first online weather service, Weather Underground (www.wunderground.com) is committed to delivering the most reliable, accurate weather information possible. The company's state-of-the-art technology monitors conditions and forecasts for over 60,000 cities worldwide. In addition to providing free, real-time online weather information to millions of Web users, Weather Underground offers a variety of newspaper weather services and custom website weather packages.
