What's more current than the weather?

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Weather Underground is the weather-map that I have occasionally used in posting here.
It is a fantastic web site, with lots and lots of detail.
Here is a example:

BUT now this:
Democratic Underground
JOHN SCHWARTZ and BRIAN STELTER
7/3/12

Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival

The announcement on Monday that the Weather Channel Companies,
owners of television’s Weather Channel and weather.com, would buy one of its rivals,
Weather Underground, set off howls of displeasure on social media
platforms and around water coolers across the nation.
The purchase price was not disclosed.
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The controversy illustrates the deep national divide between those people
who just want to know if it’s going to rain, and people who really, really,
care about the data underlying the weather.

Christopher Maxwell, a manager at a solar energy company in Richmond, Va.,
is in the really-really-cares-about-the-weather camp. He said he saw the
Weather Channel deal as a sad sellout for Weather Underground.
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Weather Underground was founded in 1995 in Ann Arbor,
where it grew out of the University of Michigan’s online weather database.
The name was a winking reference to the radical group that also had its roots in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Maxwell said he appreciated Weather Underground’s fanatical devotion to data,
and how it drew information from so many thousands of weather stations
run by users that he is able to determine “microclimates” of variation that
can prove important in getting the most out of a new solar installation.

And here is one of the published comments to this article:

8. Guess who bought them out... BAIN CAPITAL, Comcast and the Blackstone Group!