Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2005 9:21:02 GMT -5
I've belonged to WeatherMatrix since it was the Central Atlantic Storm Investigators back in 1998. The founder, Jesse Farrell, has been an employee of AccuWeather for some time, and he's largely kept the two separate, apart from his defense of AccuWeather's purchase of Senator Santorum and their collective efforts to dismantle the National Weather Service as we have known it. Well, now AccuWeather has made another "investment" by buying WeatherMatrix. To that end, I'm setting up a "replacement" forum for those who don't want to support AccuWeather's efforts to take the data that we taxpayers pay whopping amounts of money to acquire and keep it from the public, unless the public wants to pony up more money to see the data they've already paid for. Weatherforum.net will debut on July 19, 2005.
Those who want to move with WeatherMatrix over to AccuWeather are welcome to do so, of course. That's a personal decision and is and should be entirely up to each individual. For those who don't want to go but wish to maintain that sense of commmunity, outstanding information resource, and "home" for like minded individuals, weatherforum.net will be a great alternative. I hope to see you there!
I've set up an area at weatherforum.net for WxSolution discussions. What are your thoughts about using that site rather than this one - lots of other good weather info and discussion will be there, and perhaps one fewer forum for folks to check. Please let me know your thoughts.
Those who want to move with WeatherMatrix over to AccuWeather are welcome to do so, of course. That's a personal decision and is and should be entirely up to each individual. For those who don't want to go but wish to maintain that sense of commmunity, outstanding information resource, and "home" for like minded individuals, weatherforum.net will be a great alternative. I hope to see you there!
I've set up an area at weatherforum.net for WxSolution discussions. What are your thoughts about using that site rather than this one - lots of other good weather info and discussion will be there, and perhaps one fewer forum for folks to check. Please let me know your thoughts.
