AccuWeather - AccuWeather in The Profession of Meteorology

AccuWeather in The Profession of Meteorology

AccuWeather created a unified value known as "The AccuWeather Exclusive RealFeel Temperature." The formula for calculating this value incorporates the effects of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation and elevation on the human body. AccuWeather has been granted a United States patent on The RealFeel Temperature, but the formula has not been reviewed by other meteorological authorities.

AccuWeather employees who have been recognized for their services to the profession of meteorology include:

• Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather Chief Forecaster and Senior Vice President, is both a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and a Seal of Approval holder for both radio and television from the American Meteorological Society. He is a member of the AMS Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists, a Fellow of the AMS, and winner of the 1993 AMS award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcasting Meteorologist. In 1996, the National Weather Association named Abrams "Broadcaster of the Year". In 1994, he won the AMS Charles L. Mitchell Award for “outstanding and unique dissemination of weather forecasts to the nation’s public by radio and television.” Abrams is co-inventor of the AccuWeather Exclusive RealFeel Temperature.

• Dr. Joe Sobel, AccuWeather Senior Vice President, was recognized in 2004 by the AMS for Outstanding Service as a Broadcast Meteorologist. Dr. Sobel is co-inventor of the AccuWeather Exclusive RealFeel Temperature.

• Michael R. Smith, CEO of WeatherData Services, Inc., an AccuWeather company, is a Fellow of the AMS. In 1992, he won the American Meteorological Society's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Applied Meteorology and shared in WeatherData's 2000 Award for Outstanding Service to Meteorology by a Corporation.

• AccuWeather CEO Barry Lee Myers has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Weather Services Association, the private weather industry's trade association, since 1990, serving as chief federal-relations officer. He also has served as advisor to the director of the U.S. National Weather Service at World Meteorological Organization meetings.

• Dr. Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather Founder, Chairman and President, was awarded the National Weather Association’s Operation Achievement Award in 2004. Dr. Myers was recognized in 1997 as one of the 528 greatest entrepreneurs in American history in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.