The University of Michigan was the hub of the nascent internet at that time, and its North Campus home to many brilliant network engineers. In 1991, Masters returned to U-M to study air pollution meteorology, but he also was curious about this growing communications tool called “the internet.”Īnd as it turned out, Ann Arbor was the ideal place for a meteorologist to build the very first real-time internet weather service.
Read Masters’ dramatic account of surviving Hurricane HugoĪfter that experience, Masters viewed academia as a welcome change of pace. Miraculously, the pilots navigated out of the hurricane and returned to shore, with no passengers seriously injured. The turbulence, more than five Gs of force, was extreme, and the plane almost lost two engines from the same wing.
But this storm was much stronger than anticipated. The crew, as usual, flew its aircraft into the storm and through the eyewall, recording various measurements. As a flight meteorologist, Masters helped the group conduct studies aboard specialized aircraft of ocean winds, winter storms and, of course, hurricanes.Īnd in 1989, with Hurricane Hugo, Masters may have come a bit too close. He joined the Hurricane Hunters, a research team within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). degree (‘83) in meteorology from U-M, Masters decided to study weather up close.
“Hurricanes were important in my career.”Īfter earning both his B.S. “Kind of a funny thing,” said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground and creator of the original UM-WEATHER application. Hurricane Bob was not the first major hurricane to have influenced the creation of Weather Underground.
The Sun 4/110 workstation tower can be seen on the far left and was accessed with the command: telnet 3000. The Michigan Atmospheric Deposition Laboratory (MADLAB) in the Space Research Building hosted the original telnet service.
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