The Weather Channel, for the most part, looked like a normal TV station—until the local forecast would show up. Then it became a pixelated data dump of weather information served over a funky piano ...

Be sure to put on muzak for the full experience. WS4000+ is actually an ode to a very real technology called WeatherStar, a system that The Weather Channel has relied on since its premiere in 1982.

WeatherStar is the technology the Weather Channel uses to produce its "local on the 8s" weather forecasts. The creator of WeatherStar 4000+ was motivated by nostalgia and a predilection for weather to ...

In the days of yore—the 1990s—there were no smartphone apps providing real-time, on-the-spot weather updates. People actually had to turn their TVs on, flip to The Weather Channel, and wait for the ...