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Comment by jameskilton | Hacker News Reader

I stopped getting my weather from The Weather Channel a long time ago, when they became more interested in click-bait articles over just reporting the weather. Thankfully today we have many alternatives:

http://www.wunderground.com/ http://darkskyapp.com/ http://forecast.io/

And of course http://www.weather.gov/, to name a few.

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The Weather Channel purchased Weather Underground in 2012. WU doesn't push the sensational stories on their weather pages, but their "News" section is just as much of a joke now.

I didn't realize that. I guess I need to change weather providers again. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Channel

The Weather Company (TWCC Holdings:[1] consortium owned by NBCUniversal (25%),[2][3] The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital,[4] exact Bain and Blackstone percentages unknown)

NBCUniversal being Comcast of course.

Thank you for the information.

Fortunately, the weather aspect of Wunderground hasn't been adversely affected by the purchase. It appears that TWC treats Wunderground as a separate property. They have allowed some level of autonomy. The extra funding has dramatically improved their web presence. Basically Wunderground is TWC's web property that targets weather geeks.

Well as I still see a giant map of my current area and the weather, and all news stories are below the fold, so it still works. As soon as that changes I'll be looking elsewhere I'm sure.

The worst leakage is when the winter storm names start showing up in the winter.

If you are like me and just want to see the raw data in a user-friendly and customizable way without a bunch of pointless graphics or text descriptions, there is also http://weatherspark.com/

It would be great if there was as TV channel that only covered the weather. Then when I am getting dressed I could have the box on, get the report, and be ready for my day.

I don't want "news", I don't want Ice Road Truckers. I want weather. There's money to be made in that model, it seems to me.

Dark Sky is the best

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