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90s Flashback – Get your weather from WeatherStar 4000+
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90s Flashback – Get your weather from WeatherStar 4000+

Gail P Sherman
Jun 06, 2025
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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 create a web-based emulator of the version used in the 90s. While I have not fully accepted the fact that it is possible to feel nostalgia for a decade th…

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