San Francisco, CA – January 13, 2003 – CustomWeather, the leading supplier of syndicated custom weather data, announced today the availability of its hourly weather forecasts. Available for up to 7 days, hourly forecasts are invaluable for weather-affected businesses including utilities, construction and travel planning. This critical forecast information will allow CustomWeather clients to be more effective in their planning, preparedness for major events, and overall resource allocation. Now, CustomWeather can accurately pinpoint the weather as it progresses throughout the day, up to a week in advance, for thousands of possible locations around the globe.

CustomWeather’s hourly forecast includes key weather variables such as wind conditions, temperature, dew point, humidity, visibility, rainfall totals, snowfall totals, and precipitation probability. The result is a valuable tool service for a wide range of industries and customers.

CustomWeather’s Hourly Forecasts can be requested by coordinates, city names, city identifiers, or postal codes for locations around the world. The forecasts are already available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese and Dutch, and additional languages are continually being added.

CustomWeather’s hourly forecast product is one of several new additions to its collection of products, which include weather alerts, forecasts, maps and reports that are compiled for over 58,000 cities worldwide, and are already available in in-demand formats such as XML, color WML, ASCII and SMS.

CustomWeather, headquartered in San Francisco, offers syndicated custom weather content, services and applications that are designed to be fully integrated and private-labeled. CustomWeather’s geo-coded data feeds are available in desirable formats such as XML, WML, HDML and ASCII. CustomWeather generates over 58,000 unique forecasts worldwide, establishing it as the industry leader for global location-based coverage at both the US and International levels. CustomWeather is the weather supplier for customers around the world including Lycos, Galileo Travel, Go2 Systems, I3 Mobile, FastCast Broadcasting, Liberty Travel and VoltDelta. For more information visit www.customweather.com or check the weather at www.myforecast.com.

 

 

Geoff Flint

415. 777 3945

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