President of the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization and Members from the Russian Federation Visit WeatherBug Headquarters

GERMANTOWN, Md., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The President of the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and head of the Russian Federation for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet), Dr. Alexander Bedritsky, visited WeatherBug's headquarters yesterday to tour its Meteorological Operations Center and to meet with the company's leadership team.

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Accompanied by a delegation from the Russian Federation, the meeting with Dr. Bedritsky was part of a one week visit organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) in support of the bilateral agreement between Roshydromet and NOAA, signed in June 2005.

"It was truly an honor to meet with Dr. Bedritsky and to host the Roshydromet delegation during their visit to the U.S.," said Bob Marshall, Founder, President and CEO of AWS Convergence Technologies, the parent company of WeatherBug. "We are very proud of our public/private partnership with the U.S. National Weather Service, and it is rewarding to see our work being used as a model for how other countries can leverage expertise from the private sector to build more local and accurate observational networks and improve forecasts and severe weather alerting for their citizens."

After the meeting the delegation visited with students and teachers from Clearspring Elementary School in Damascus, Md. to learn more about the WeatherBug Schools program. The delegation then traveled to WJLA TV, WeatherBug's broadcast partner in Washington, D.C. for a tour of the TV studio and a demonstration of WeatherBug's on-air technology.

"I am very impressed that you are able to deliver content to many different people and enterprises and deliver the different specific types of content. In Russia we have a slogan, you cannot choose the weather but you can choose the right decision to respond to the weather. Your company enables people to make the right decision," commented Dr. Bedritsky.

"Improvement and expansion of the weather sensing and environmental infrastructure is very important and this is one of the things that WeatherBug does that has real social significance. I believe this is just as important as transportation and communication infrastructures or other types of public infrastructure that we all believe are so valuable," he added.

Last May, Marshall attended the World Meteorological Organization's Fifteenth Congress in Geneva to serve as a U.S. delegate and representative of the private sector. Marshall brought a perspective on the role of private sector companies in supporting the mission of public weather services around the globe, particularly relating to leadership and cooperation in weather, climate, hydrology and weather resources related to environmental issues.

WeatherBug was founded in 1993 after Marshall identified the critical need for high quality, relevant weather information to be acquired for forecasting and alerting of severe weather. Today, WeatherBug owns and operates the world's largest network of professional grade surface weather observation stations. The live weather information gathered from the WeatherBug network of 8,000 observation stations is streamed to millions of consumers and businesses daily to help them make informed decisions for protecting lives and property.

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