Twitter and the Weather

Did you know that there are approximately 200 tweets about the weather every minute. That’s 12,000 tweets per hour and 288,000 per day!

Because of the high demand, twitter has teamed up with the weather channel to provide live weather updates to over 200 U.S. cities. Each day the weather channel will post the local forecast for cities so that you can stay up to date about your weather and its impact on your day.

There are some other weather related twitter accounts that are worth following as well. They include:

@ReedTimmerTVN – Reed is a tornado chaser from the show Storm Chasers and he highlights his team’s success and failures.

@AlRoker provides some humorous weather news and updates each day.

@JackatNWS is a weather channel administrator who tweets daily about major weather events across the US.

@wunderground tweets and retweets major and minor weather events around the world.

These are a couple of twitter accounts to look into following but there are plenty more. The weather is extremely important to know and understand so make sure to follow up and see if anything major will be happening in your area from these helpful people on twitter.