ULTRA LocalCast™ gives stations the most local and accurate forecast tools available today

(State College, PA - Feb. 1, 2000) - The clearest, most accurate and localized picture of weather is available now with AccuWeather's new, truly unique ULTRA LocalCast™, a system which gives its users a distinct advantage in "local local" weather.

ULTRA LocalCast's graphic weather displays combine multiple, computer-generated forecast models, with input from AccuWeather meteorologists, making them far more accurate and more localized than those available from any other source. The system's dynamic animation displays allow stations to inform viewers of upcoming weather as never before, with pinpointed details for every city, town, and zip code.

"ULTRA LocalCast is the only model that shows viewers the weather forecast for their individual neighborhoods," explained Dr. Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather founder and president. "This unique capability gives stations a critical edge over their competition, that enhances their viewership and ratings."

ULTRA LocalCast allows users to display forecast animations with colored bands and specific numbers for any desired locations. The forecasts are updated hourly, and extend two weeks into the future to show the long-term trends as well as the short-term forecast.

The system displays the weather from any desired aerial perspective, from the national picture, all the way down to local street-level.

"The dynamic presentations of the ULTRA LocalCast system are not only informative, but fascinating and truly exciting," Dr Myers added. "Never before have forecast animations been available that are so precise, so locally pinpointed, and so enticing.

With ULTRA LocalCast, viewers are provided with specific weather information on temperatures, relative humidity, dew points, rainfall, snowfall, wind, ice, cloud cover, UV index, wind chill, heat index and many other weather factors. Stations can choose to show the weather for the next hour or even through the next 14 days.

AccuWeather's ULTRA LocalCast is updated every hour so stations can show the most up-to-date weather forecast, unlike most other models which take hours to run and are updated every three to twelve hours. ULTRA LocalCast creates stunning animations in seconds.

ULTRA LocalCast shows temperature differences at one-degree intervals within any DMA, the accumulation of snowfall inch by inch across a DMA, and the precise variation in any of 22 different weather factors.

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