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AccuWeather Inc. is an 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,
AccuWeather markets weather products and services, with clients worldwide in media, business and government, including 245 of the Fortune companies and thousands of other businesses.It also runs the free, advertising-supported website AccuWeather.com, an online weather provider. Third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb rated the site as the 200th most visited website in the United States, as of November 2015.
AccuWeather’s forecasts and warning services are based on weather information derived from numerous sources, including weather observations and data gathered by the National Weather Service and meteorological organizations outside the United States, and from information provided by non-meteorological organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the armed forces. AccuWeather employs more than 500 people, more than 100 of whom are meteorologists.
