What is the name of a commercial weather service that provides real-time weather information reported by personal weather stations that have access to this international website?
Weather Underground (weather service) Weather Underground is a commercial weather service providing real-time weather information via the Internet. Weather Underground provides weather reports for most major cities across the world on its website, as well as local weather reports for newspapers and websites. Its information comes from the National Weather Service (NWS), and over 250,000 personal weather stations (PWS). The website is available in many languages, and customers can access an ad-free version of the site with additional features for an annual fee. Weather Underground is owned by The Weather Company, a subsidiary of IBM.
FreshyMap FreshyMap is a web application that provides real-time data visualizations of snow reports and short-term forecasts at ski resorts. The application functions by scraping and analyzing data from relevant sources such as avalanche centers, resort snowfall reports, weather models, snowtel readings, Department of Transportation data, and webcam feeds. A proprietary algorithm then determines a "Freshy Factor" rating for each ski area by analyzing information like day of the week, time of day, snowfall data from weather stations, five day snow and new snow, as well as reports from social networks. FreshyMap was founded in 2011 by Chris Helm and Brendan Heberton and now includes reports for approximately 160 resorts in three countries.