Weather Zombie
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Weather Zombie Website

Created by Lycos
Lycos
Lycos, Inc. is a search engine and web portal established in 1994. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, webhosting, social networking, and entertainment websites.-Corporate history:...

 and launched in mid October, 2010, Weather Zombie is a website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

 that provides weather forecasting via a weather data feed from AccuWeather
AccuWeather
AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student working on degrees in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running the...

and relayed through various weather themed zombies.

Weather Zombie provides world wide weather forecasting for current, 7-day and hour by hour conditions. There is also radar information, however it currently only covers the United States and parts of Canada.
Aside from weather forecasting, Weather Zombie also irregularly posts comic strips based on images loosely depicted from radar images as well as comic strips that feature the site's zombies in various situations.

Weather Zombie iPhone App

In April 2011 Weather Zombie was released to the Apple App store as a free app. It is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices running iOS 3.1.3 and later. Though compatible with iPads, it is currently an iPhone/iPod Touch optimized app.

Reception

Both the website and iPhone app have received favorable reviews from various zombie themed websites and App review websites. The biggest criticisms of both being the lack of world-wide radar information, lacking national weather emergency data and being iPhone App exclusive.
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