AccuWeather headquarters in Ferguson Township, Pennsylvania
Company type
Private
Industry
Meteorology
Genre
Weather forecasting
Founded
1962; 62 years ago (1962)
Founder
Joel Myers
Headquarters
Ferguson Township, near State College, Pennsylvania
,
United States
Key people
Joel Myers (executive chairman) Steven Smith (CEO)
Services
Smartphone weather applications
Online forecasts and videos
Number of employees
450+[1]
Website
www.accuweather.com
AccuWeather Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide.
AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running his company, Myers also worked as a member of Penn State's meteorology faculty. The company adopted the name "AccuWeather" in 1971.
AccuWeather is headquartered in Ferguson Township, just outside of State College, Pennsylvania, with offices at 80 Pine Street in Manhattan's Financial District in addition to Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Internationally, AccuWeather has offices in Montreal, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, and Mumbai.
^"Careers". AccuWeather. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
AccuWeather Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide. AccuWeather was founded in...
The AccuWeather Network is an American cable and satellite television network launched, operated and owned by AccuWeather. The network broadcasts live...
same year, Timmer joined AccuWeather, covering severe weather until 2019. A year later, on May 16, 2017, Timmer deployed a weather probe inside an EF2 tornado...
affiliates. AccuWeather Network is a national version of the AccuWeather channel. The network broadcasts pre-recorded national and regional weather forecasts...
subchannels carrying Weather Plus have since switched to the similarly formatted The Local AccuWeather Channel, kept the Weather Plus engine, or switched...
previously offered free to the public on AccuWeather's main site. However, in the early 2000s, AccuWeather launched its "professional site," and his...
of AccuWeather, an American commercial weather service and media company. Myers is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He founded AccuWeather in State...
30-Part 3—A weather map that created a global tsunami". García Media. "AccuWeather Announces New Partnership With USA Today". AccuWeather (Press release)...
counsel for AccuWeather, a privately owned for-profit weather-forecasting company founded by his elder brother, Joel Myers. As an AccuWeather executive...
2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-17. "When is Peak Tornado Season in Canada?". AccuWeather. 2010-05-14. Archived from the original on 2014-01-18. Retrieved 2014-01-16...
AccuWeather. AccuWeather Inc. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2017. Nick Luchetti (April 15, 2013). "National Weather Service...
(March 3, 2023). "At least 13 dead following multistate severe weather outbreak". AccuWeather. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved March...
American meteorologist formerly employed by The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia and formerly with AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. He graduated...
"Tupelo, Mississippi, takes direct hit from large nighttime tornado". AccuWeather. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021. "Several...
Originals. In August 2021, The Roku Channel was reported to add CBC, AccuWeather Now, FilmRise True Crime, Haunt TV, and IGN for free streaming. By March...
DSCOVR Satellite Launch Attempt Delayed by Technical Issues". AccuWeather.com. AccuWeather, Inc. "CSEM - Center for Space Environment Modeling". csem.engin...
for the news show. This is also a popular way to report the weather. For example, AccuWeather does not just supply data, they also supply on-air meteorologists...
"Incredibly cool, spinning ice disc is back and drawing onlookers again". AccuWeather. Archived from the original on September 6, 2023. Retrieved September...
sweep through UAE, Oman Archived 17 April 2024 at the Wayback Machine, AccuWeather, 17 April 2024 "UAE witnesses largest amount of rainfall in 75 years"...
locational data, even if they opted out within Accuweather, which tracked users' location. Accuweather sold this data to Reveal Mobile, a company that...
social media buttons (Twitter, Facebook), news (USA Today), and weather (AccuWeather). Some web widgets though serve as user-selectable customizations...
replaced by the AccuWeather Network (which launched on March 13) and a widget provided by Fios featuring forecast content provided by WeatherBug. No public...
better extrapolation, including evolution of those features in time. Accuweather is known for a Minute-Cast, which is a minute-by-minute precipitation...
"Southwest Florida in tatters 2 days after Hurricane Ian's rampage". Accuweather. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved October...
newspapers. It is sold for $1.50 daily and $7.99 on Sunday. AccuWeather provides weather content to the Grand Rapids Press. The Morning Press was founded...
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