AccuWeather

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AccuWeather Inc.

AccuWeather headquarters in Ferguson Township, Pennsylvania
Company type	Private
Industry	Meteorology
Genre	Weather forecasting
Founded	1962; 62 years ago (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+[1]
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, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running his company, Myers also worked as a member of Penn State's meteorology faculty. 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 Montreal, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, and Mumbai.