The Weather Company

The Weather Company LLC is a weather forecasting and information technology company that owns and operates the Weather Channel app and its website weather.com and Weather Underground; it also owns the Weather Channel brand. The Weather Company also produces a weather API of data and analytics tools used in advertising and aviation. The company originated from the Weather Channel, founded in 1980, and was restructured in 2012 to distinguish its media and data operations. From 2016 to 2023, the Weather Company was a subsidiary of the Watson & Cloud Platform business unit of IBM. In February 2024, the private equity firm Francisco Partners completed the acquisition of the Weather Company, which operates as a standalone company.