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    Bob Henson has written the last opinion piece by him or Jeff Masters ever to be posted in the Weather Underground site, reminiscing about what it has been like participating there and what has happened to the climate since the site was started by Jeff, all those years ago, and what will now continue in their new home, sponsored by Yale University in the USA:

    https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/section/eye-on-the-storm/

    For the time being, there is no place there for the Wunderground enthusiastic followers to post their comments, weather data, maps and other information, including their own local meteorological measurements, as well as photos and videos of serious local weather events and their aftermaths, but the developers at Yale are working on it, with their highest priority being to get this up and running. Also, at least for now, there are no near real-time maps, animated or otherwise, showing current weather developments, or weather forecasts, or an indication that they might become available there later on, so for those one would still have to rely on the Wunderground site (or some other alternative), a site that in a few more days will no longer be Jeff and Bob ‘s place anymore.

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    • #2275333

      I like the Canadian weather site, The weather Network.com. The past 24 hour temps are in numbers.  Weather underground is a bar graph.

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      The wind shifted for WU when Weather dot com bought them.  Surprised it lasted as long as it did . . .

      A sad farewell indeed.

      ~ Group "Weekend" ~

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      For those who would like to read Henson’s last article (the one with a rainbow in the picture-link), it is in the home page of the new site at Yale I gave the link to in my original comment at the top of this thread. Along with a new article on the Sahara dust cloud now reaching the Americas, plus a number of earlier articles by him and Jeff Masters published in “Category 6” in Wunderground.

      Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

      MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
      Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
      macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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