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Weather Underground Incorporated, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was spun out from the University of Michigan in 1995. The company provides clients with weather information technologies and services. The firm's wunderground.com resource originally published daily forecasts and hourly updates for 550 cities across the United States. The website was extended with real-time update, ZIP code search, severe weather warning, international weather, marine weather, and other features in 1997. In the same year, the company began developing customized weather websites for television stations and Internet portals. Weather Underground extended its website with support for 35 languages in 1998. In 1999, the firm deployed the proprietary AS5000 advertisement serving system. In the same year, wunderground.com was extended with historical weather archive features. Deployment of a NOAAPORT satellite dish supported the publication of real-time NEXRAD precipitation data and satellite imagery. Weather Underground website includes forecasts for 12,000 cities worldwide. It provides visitors with temperature, heat index, humidity, radar, wind, visibility, jet stream, and other information. The website also includes trip planner features. Weather Underground provides Microsoft (R) Windows (R) and Macintosh computer users with weather information software widgets.
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