AccuWeather
executive chairman) )Steven Smith (CEO | |
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Number of employees | 450+[1] |
Website | www |
AccuWeather Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide.
AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by
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.
Company profile
AccuWeather provides weather forecasts and warnings and additional weather products and services, with clients worldwide in media, business, and government, including more than half of the
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 as well as its own proprietary models and algorithms. In 2020, AccuWeather requested and received between $5 million and $10 million in aid under the Paycheck Protection Program to avoid having to let go 462 employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] In 2021, AccuWeather employed just under 500 people, more than 100 of whom are operational meteorologists.[5]
AccuWeather operates a 24/7 weather channel known as
In 2006, AccuWeather acquired WeatherData, Inc. of Wichita. Renamed AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions in 2011, the Wichita facility now[when?] houses AccuWeather's specialized severe weather forecasters.[citation needed]
Leadership
As of June 2023, Steven R. Smith is CEO having taken over the position from company founder Dr. Joel N. Myers who became executive chairman.[7] Joel Myers' brother Evan Myers was Chief Operating Officer until 2020[8] and Senior Vice President. His other brother, Barry Lee Myers, w chief executive officer from 2007 to January 1, 2019.[9]
Products and services
The regular weather provider for
AccuWeather produces local weather videos each day for use on their own website, on the Local AccuWeather Network, on wired Internet, and on
video section to their photo gallery.In 2015, AccuWeather entered into a joint venture with the Chinese company Huafeng Media Group, receiving the sole rights to deliver forecasts made by the China Meteorological Administration, a government agency that controls Huafeng.[18]
Besides its forecasting services to individual consumers, AccuWeather performs weather-related predictive analytical services for businesses, such as determining how weather conditions have influenced past sales history and advising businesses on adapting their sales strategy for future weather events.[19]
The Local AccuWeather Channel
Starting in 2005, AccuWeather offered The Local AccuWeather Channel as a digital subchannel to television stations.[20] By 2021, the service had been quietly discontinued.[21] AccuWeather continues to provide local weather content to noncommercial Milwaukee PBS station WMVT-DT3 under a separate agreement.[22]
National weather channel
In 2015,
AccuWeather Now
In July 2021, AccuWeather announced a companion
RealFeel temperature
AccuWeather created a unified and proprietary
Criticisms
Long-term forecasting practices
In April 2012, AccuWeather drastically shortened the range of their publicly available historical data from 15 years to 1 year. They also began increasing the range of their forecast from 15 days to 25 days, 45 days, and (by 2016) to 90 days. These hyper-extended forecasts have been compared to actual results several times and shown to be misleading, inaccurate, and sometimes less accurate than simple predictions based on National Weather Service averages over a 30-year period.[27][28] It is generally accepted that the upper limit on how far one can reliably forecast is between one and two weeks, a limit based on both limits in observation systems and the chaotic nature of the atmosphere.[27][29][30]
An informal assessment conducted by
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service, which provides large amounts of the data that AccuWeather repackages and sells for profit, also provides that same information for free by placing it in the public domain.
On April 14, 2005, U.S. Senator
On October 12, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated AccuWeather CEO Barry Lee Myers, the younger brother of the company's founder, to head the National Weather Service's parent administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was noted that unlike 11 of the previous 12 NOAA administrators, Myers lacks an advanced scientific degree, instead holding bachelor's and master's degrees in business and law.[36] Barry Myers stepped down as CEO of AccuWeather on January 1, 2019, and completely divested himself of any ownership of AccuWeather in accordance with his pledge to the Office of Government Ethics and the U.S. Senate. After two years of inaction on the nomination, Myers withdrew his consideration for nomination on November 12, 2019, due to ill health,[37] though allegations of a hostile workplace and pervasive sexual harassment while Myers was at AccuWeather are rumored to have stalled it.[38][39] Myers sent a letter to The Washington Post in 2019 to address these allegations.
iOS location privacy
In August 2017, security researcher Will Strafach intercepted traffic from the AccuWeather
See also
References
- ^ "Careers". AccuWeather. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Firm Expands Ways to Get Weather – Technology". redOrbit. December 3, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ "Accuweather.com Site Overview". Alexa. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ Moyer, Josh (July 8, 2020). "What Centre County businesses received COVID-19 aid, and how much did they get? Here's a closer look". Centre Daily Times.
- ^ "About Us". AccuWeather. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
- ^ "National Weather". hollywoodreporter.com. November 5, 2017.
- ^ "AccuWeather names new CEO after founder Joel Myers steps down to become executive chairman". Centre Daily Times. The McClatchy Company. June 14, 2023.
- ^ Samenow, Jason (April 11, 2016), "AccuWeather extends its controversial, 45-day weather forecasts to 90 days", The Washington Post, retrieved November 18, 2016
- ^ Feintzeig, Rachel (March 20, 2014), "Meet the Man Who Brings You the Weather", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved November 18, 2016
- ^ "CNN.com – Transcripts". CNN.
- ^ "Topics and Guests for September 24 & 25". Fox News. September 23, 2005. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- ^ "Covering Katrina". Fox News. August 29, 2005. [dead link]
- ^ Athas, Eric. "AccuWeather forecaster Jim Kosek's over-the-top antics make him a Web sensation". The Washington Post.
- ^ Vadala, Nick. "Longtime AccuWeather meteorologist Elliot Abrams, a Philly native, to retire this week". www.inquirer.com. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
- ^ Moynihan, Tim (February 26, 2014), "AccuWeather's Revamped App Is the Perfect Blend of Utility and Beauty", WIRED, retrieved April 9, 2017
- ^ Swanner, Nate (July 21, 2015). "AccuWeather's AccUcast service is like Waze for weather". The Next Web B.V. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
- ^ "CORRECTION: Content From AccuWeather to Expand to Digital Signs – Business". redOrbit. August 11, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Dodillet, Lauren (May 28, 2015). "JV Brings AccuWeather Tech to China". China Business Review. US China Business Council. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
- ^ Davis, Jessica (November 23, 2015), "AccuWeather Storms Into Enterprise With Predictive Analytics", InformationWeek, retrieved November 18, 2016
- ^ McAvoy, Kim (July 27, 2011). "Diginets Struggle For Place On TV's Frontier". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
- ^ a b "AccuWeather to Launch Video Streaming Service AccuWeather NOW". AccuWeather. July 29, 2021 – via PR Newswire.
- OnMilwaukee.com, July 14, 2010.
- ^ "Verizon FiOS drops the Weather Channel". Los Angeles Times. March 11, 2015. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
- ^ "What is the AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature?". Accuweather. June 17, 2014. Archived from the original on November 30, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ^ "United States Patent: 7251579". Patft.uspto.gov. Archived from the original on December 8, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Carpenter, Mackenzie (January 25, 2014). "Have we become emotionally obsessed with the weather?". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
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- ^ Paul, Don (June 10, 2016). The Farmers' Almanac, long-range forecasts and other 'gibberish' Archived June 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. The Buffalo News. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
- ^ "Chaos in the Atmosphere". www.aip.org. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2016.
- ^ Samenow, Jason (August 6, 2013). Accuweather: You cannot be serious. The Washington Post. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ "AccuWeather unveils 45-day forecast – DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG". August 25, 2013. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2016.
- ^ a b Mesereau, Dennis (October 8, 2013). AccuWeather’s 45-day forecast fails to impress in multi-city test. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Weather info could go dark". Archived from the original on May 17, 2007.
- ^ "NEWSMEAT ▷ Joel Myers's Federal Campaign Contribution Report". Newsmeat.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Shepardson, David (October 12, 2017). "White House nominates AccuWeather CEO to head climate agency". Reuters. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ Brice-Saddler, Michael (April 12, 2019). "Company led by Trump nominee was rife with harassment, including groping and kissing, report says". The Washington Post.
- ^ Wood, Anthony (April 15, 2019). "Feds allege 'widespread sexual harassment' at AccuWeather while Trump nominee was CEO". Philadelphia Inquirer.
- ^ "ZDnet ▷ AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off". ZDnet.com. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ^ Shaikh, Rafia (August 24, 2017). "AccuWeather Releases Updated App to Deal with Privacy Concerns". Wccftech. WCCF PTE LTD.
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