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AccuweatherAccuWeather is a large American company that provides weather forecasting services. Thanks largely to its business providing forecasts for radio and television stations, as well as weather maps for hundreds of newspapers, it is one of the best-known companies of its type in the country. Over the last 39 years, AccuWeather has grown from one man's dream to become the world's largest commercial weather service. Today, AccuWeather serves more than 15,000 clients worldwide with weather forecasts, data, color graphics, consulting services, computer hardware and software. AccuWeather serves clients in the media, government, industry and education. More than 180 million Americans recognize the AccuWeather name as the leader in weather forecasts and information. On November 15, 1962 Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student, began forecasting the weather for a gas utility company in Pennsylvania. Joel not only had a firm grasp of weather patterns, but he also had insight into the impact of the weather on businesses and people. As Joel worked on his M.S. and then Ph.D. in Meteorology from The Pennsylvania State University, AccuWeather's client base grew to include other businesses and government agencies. In 1971, AccuWeather began services to radio and television stations. Five of the first seven broadcast stations served by AccuWeather in the early '70s are still clients today. AccuWeather now serves hundreds of television and radio stations all across the United States plus stations from Canada to Chile, from Africa to Australia, and from Moscow to Manilla. During the early days of AccuWeather, Dr. Myers not only forecast and ran the new company, but remained an active member of the Penn State faculty. At the time of his retirement from teaching at Penn State, it was estimated that Dr. Myers had taught basic forecasting skills to 17% of all of the country's practicing meteorologists. During Dr. Myers' teaching at Penn State and work at AccuWeather he conducted numerous studies to help develop forecasting techniques which increase forecast accuracy. The AccuWeather approach to forecasting has helped make AccuWeather the most accurate and most recognized name among commercial weather forecasting services. Joel and AccuWeather share a commitment to excellence in education. Joel has served as a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees since 1981, and each year AccuWeather awards several scholarships to Penn State meteorology students and State College High School seniors. In addition, AccuWeather is a sponsor of the National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest. AccuWeather's pioneering developments have extended well beyond the creation and dissemination of weather forecasts. AccuWeather has also led the way in utilizing and developing new technologies. In 1979, AccuWeather began to develop a state-of-the-art meteorological database. AccuWeather also developed an educational program, On-Line with AccuWeather, utilizing teachers' guides, educational modules and student worksheets, which has been recognized with four awards as one of the top educational products. In 1983, AccuWeather began to make color weather graphics available, and these are now utilized by MSNBC, CNBC, CNN and more than 200 individual television stations. AccuWeather has also supplied graphics computer systems to more than 100 television stations. As technology advanced, AccuWeather was in the forefront and in 1994 AccuWeather began providing free Internet weather at AccuWeather.com, which has become one of the Web's leading weather sites. AccuWeather is the world leader in Internet weather, providing weather data, forecasts, and graphics to over 6000 sites including five of the six top TV news sites, and three of the four top cable news sites. AccuWeather pioneered advances in newspaper weather, providing newspapers with complete, camera-ready, black and white or color custom weather pages. With our latest technology, transmitting complete weather pages directly to a newspaper's pre-press system, AccuWeather today provides weather pages to more than 750 newspapers in the United States and around the world and, in addition, prepares all of the weather maps for The Associated Press. Other AccuWeather innovations include an automated, state-of- the-art fax service called AccuWeather Fax (tm) , and a warning service, FirstWarn (tm) , that automatically generates a crawl over a television station's broadcast signal to notify the public the instant an official warning is issued. Over the past 39 years, AccuWeather has grown from the dream of one person to one of the nation's best-known and most respected companies. AccuWeather today employs over 400 people, including 100 meteorologists, the largest staff of operational forecasters at one location anyplace in the world. It is conservatively estimated that the AccuWeather forecasts have, over the years, saved more than 100 lives and more than $30 million in property. AccuWeather is proud of its continued growth over the past 39 years. Each year, AccuWeather has grown in number of employees and clients served and total revenue. AccuWeather is an assembly of the best meteorologists, computer, graphics, technical and support personnel available. The AccuWeather staff takes pride in the company's success, and in the positive impact AccuWeather has had in people's lives. External links
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