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AccuWeather MinuteCast® Nominated for Webby Award

Public voting now underway. Cast your vote at Webby’s People Voice

Published Apr 14, 2022 4:19 PM EDT

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AccuWeather Global Weather Center, April 14, 2022 — AccuWeather’s award-winning weather app, the most used and proven most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings, today announced that the highly popular AccuWeather MinuteCast® feature has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of “Apps and Software – General Apps; Services & Utilities.”

As a nominee, AccuWeather is eligible to win a Webby People’s Voice Award, for which the public voting period is currently underway through April 21st, 2022.

MinuteCast® is one of the app’s most popular features for forecast information, enabling users to stay aware of precipitation for up to four hours ahead.  It is available on the today screen of the free AccuWeather app, available on iOS and Android, and allows users to stay informed about hyper-local weather.

Now with extended coverage of up to four hours in advance, the MinuteCast® feature provides real-time forecasts with detailed information about precipitation type and intensity as well as start and end times, pinpointed to a specific street address or GPS location in 210 countries.

Recently, the AccuWeather app expanded its coverage of the MinuteCast® feature for real-time forecasts, along with the app’s advanced radar capabilities, to all of Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, making AccuWeather the only weather source to provide the most complete Up-to-the-Minute® service for weather tracking tools in this hemisphere to complement its highly accurate forecasts. Other recent expansions included extended coverage in major cities in Europe and around the world.

“MinuteCast® delivers actionable, hyper-localized precipitation forecasts to help people make the best weather-impacted decisions,” said AccuWeather President, Digital, Kurt Fulepp. “MinuteCast is another example of AccuWeather’s mission to provide people, communities and businesses with easy-to-use, life-saving technology wherever they are.” 

AccuWeather’s MinuteCast® real-time forecasts is just one example of the innovations AccuWeather has developed to help people make the best weather decisions. MinuteCast is complemented by other proprietary innovations, such as AccuWeather’s Hurricane Tracker tool, AccuWeather’s WinterCast® feature, and AccuWeather Alerts™, new advanced severe weather notifications that are revolutionizing the distribution and communication of dangerous weather, available in AccuWeather Premium+ upgrade in the AccuWeather app.  These and many other tools help users stay prepared ahead of any weather situation, with an app that offers world-class design, functionality and pinpoint precision.

The Webby Awards are given for excellence on the Internet, are presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which comprises over two thousand industry experts and technology innovators.

About AccuWeather  

AccuWeather®, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, PA and other offices around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their lives and get more out of their day through digital media properties, such as the AccuWeather.com® website and AccuWeather mobile application, as well as radio, television, newspapers, and the 24/7 AccuWeather Network channel and AccuWeather NOWTM streaming service. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of businesses globally.  

AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. Among AccuWeather’s many innovative and award-winning features available free to the public are MinuteCast® forecasts with Minute by Minute® updates and Superior Accuracy™, the patented AccuWeather RealFeel® temperature and current conditions, and AccuWeather RealImpact™ scale for Hurricanes.  Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Dr. Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been named “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. 

AccuWeather, AccuWeather.com, RealFeel, MinuteCast, Minute by Minute, Minute by Minute Forecasts, Up to the Minute, and WinterCast are all registered trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc.  AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature, RealFeel Shade, AccuWeatherIQ, RealImpact, AccuWeather RealImpact Scale, AccuWeather RI, AccuWeather MinuteCast, AccuWeather Network, AccuWeather NOW, and Superior Accuracy are all trademarks of AccuWeather, Inc.  All other trademarks, product names, and logos are the property of their respective owners. 

The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is free at the Google Play store. The AccuWeather iOS app is free at the Apple store.

Visit accuweather.com for the most accurate hyperlocal forecasts, weather news and information. 

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