Closure
NBC announced on October 7, 2008 that Weather Plus would be phased out by December 31, after the NBC affiliates expressed a desire to shut the service down. Though NBC cited its purchase of The Weather Channel as a factor in the shutdown, it has been stated that the closure would have happened even if the acquisition had not happened.
On-camera personality segments ended on October 24, 2008. From then on until the network's sign-off date, only a loop of various national maps with music, local maps by the affiliates, and Weather Plus University were shown. With this, the remaining OCM staff of the channel were referred to on other NBC News programs as only "NBC meteorologists", then eventually as being staff from the Weather Channel.
Prior to the shutdown announcement, the staff at NBC Weather Plus was planning a revamp of their L-bar. At least one former Weather Plus affiliate, WKYC-TV in Cleveland used this revamp since the closure of Weather Plus as part of their localized version, until abandoning the Weather Plus format for looping local radar.
In early December 2008, Weather Plus's website became a redirect to The Weather Channel's website.
Until 2011, several NBC O&O stations ran a barebones variant of WeatherPlus, which was finally replaced with their local Nonstop channels. Other stations have ended their use of Weather Plus in order to take advantage of upgraded weather technology after their high-definition conversions, or moved over to a subchannel network with a traditional programming schedule more palatable to different advertisers.
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