AccuWeather

AccuWeather, Inc.
	AccuWeather headquarters in Ferguson Township, Pennsylvania
Company type	Private
Industry	Meteorology
Genre	Weather forecasting
Founded	1962
Founder	Joel Myers
Headquarters	Ferguson Township, near State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Key people	Joel Myers (executive chairman); Steven Smith (CEO)
Services	Smartphone weather applications; Online forecasts and videos;
Number of employees	500+
Website	accuweather.com

AccuWeather, Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers. The company adopted the name 'AccuWeather' in 1971.

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 Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, and Mumbai.

The business model of the company is to take statistics and weather data compiled by federal agencies and federal government satellites and sell it to users in a more user-friendly, consumable format.^[2]^[3] AccuWeather has lobbied the US government to stop providing services for free to the public and to privatize the National Weather Service, thus enabling AccuWeather to provide those services at a charge instead.^[2]^[4]

^ "Careers". AccuWeather. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Green, Miranda (October 14, 2017). "Trump's pick to lead NOAA pushed for privatizing weather data | CNN Politics". CNN.
^ Schlanger, Zoë (July 16, 2024). "The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports". The Atlantic.
^ Freedman, Andrew (November 25, 2019). "Weather is turning into big business. And that could be trouble for the public". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.

[1] "Careers". AccuWeather. Retrieved January 14, 2023.

[:0-2] Green, Miranda (October 14, 2017). "Trump's pick to lead NOAA pushed for privatizing weather data | CNN Politics". CNN.

[3] Schlanger, Zoë (July 16, 2024). "The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports". The Atlantic.

[4] Freedman, Andrew (November 25, 2019). "Weather is turning into big business. And that could be trouble for the public". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.

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