On November 15, 1962 , Dr. Joel N. Myers, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student, began forecasting the weather for a gas utility company in Pennsylvania. With this first customer, AccuWeather was born.

Today, AccuWeather.com is known as The World's Weather Authority™. AccuWeather.com provides a portfolio of products and services through the airwaves, the Internet, in print, and behind the scenes that benefit hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Among these are television weather graphics systems and complete newspaper weather pages that are transmitted electronically to more than 850 newspapers worldwide, ready to print. More than 65,000 paying customers use AccuWeather's products in media, business, government and institutions.

AccuWeather.com is the leading source for weather on the Internet, with millions of page views each day. AccuWeather.com also provides content onto more than 600 Internet sites including CNN Interactive, ABC's owned and operated stations, The Associated Press®, The Washington Post and The New York Times .

AccuWeather.com is a leader in the growing wireless market, building partnerships with leading wireless providers. Information readily accessible to cell phone users includes severe weather warnings, forecasts for every zip code in the U.S., radar images and much more.