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Detailed, Instant Weather Now Playing On a Cell Phone Near You

AccuWeather.com now offers personalized weather updates to subscriber cell phones and handheld computers, or PDAs

by Staff
December 22, 2004
Detailed, Instant Weather Now Playing On a Cell Phone Near You

 

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AccuWeather.com now offers personalized weather updates to subscriber cell phones and handheld computers, or PDAs.

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Their Premium Wireless service is offered to 130 million cellular customers through fifteen wireless service providers nationwide.
Subscribers can access a wide range of weather information to take the guesswork out of their weather-affected activities. Truckers in particular could benefit from Premium Wireless services, which include:
• Radar images that can be zoomed in or out, with animated local, metro, state and regional radar maps
• Severe weather warnings
• Satellite maps with regional and national coverage
• AccuWeather’s pinpointed ten-day local forecasts with the exclusive, patented RealFeel Temperature
• Detailed hour-by-hour forecasts up to twelve hours out
• Current weather conditions for chosen locations
• AccuPOP, which predicts the probability and amount of rain, snow and/or ice in three-hour increments for any location through the next four days
• Air quality and pollen alerts
• Humidity and UV index ratings
• The ability to store multiple zip codes, for fast and easy weather checks of most-traveled locations such as home, work and school
• International forecasts with weather data from around the globe
• The Hurricane Center with forecasts, satellite imagery and predicted storm movement
• The Almanac with sun and moon data
“AccuWeather is setting the standard for weather content on wireless devices,” says AccuWeather.com’s Jim Candor, Senior Vice President of New Media. “Building on the tremendous success we experienced with our first wireless weather forecasts, we enhanced our product to meet the needs of cellular users seeking accurate, informative weather data at a glance.”
For more information and to sign up, visit http://wireless.accuweather.com.

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