Weather Underground: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Meteorology, TV, and weather enthusiasts will intersect in a new way starting on August 24 with the debut of Weather Underground, a two-hour program to air weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 pm ET on The Weather Channel. The show carries the geeky, informal imprint of its namesake, which was founded in 1995 as the Internet's first weather service. Based in San Francisco, Weather Underground became part of The Weather Company in 2012.

Drawing on the Weather Channel's history of making weather accessible to the public, the new show will embody the future of interactive science television. Fans will be able to submit questions via #WUTV across social media, report current conditions in their area, contribute to the creation of show segments, access behind-the-scenes live-stream video via wunderground.com and participate in weather roundtables live on air. Science-grounded and community-based, the Weather Underground network includes more than 120,000 personal weather stations that feed into WU's widely used website and apps, enhancing their strength at local forecasting.

The new show will appeal to WU members as well as everyone's inner weather geek, with insights into breaking weather events and the science behind forecasting. The show's basement-style set will reflect WU's quirky, independent style, with a full bar, lounge chairs and state-of-the-art 3D visuals. Viewers will also get to know the WunderFriends, four characters created by WU artists that will come to life in animated form. "Weather Underground" will be hosted by Mike Bettes, an Emmy Award-winning meteorologist and storm tracker.

Series details

• Title: Weather Underground
• Format: News
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2015-08-24
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: The Weather Channel
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 121 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7141

Cast and credited roles

• Mike Bettes — Host
• Sarah Dillingham — Co-Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-08-24; final listed air date 2015-12-30.
• Season 2: premiered 2016-01-04; final listed air date 2016-12-30; episode order: 257.
• Season 3: premiered 2017-01-02; final listed air date 2017-09-29; episode order: 257.

Source and licence

Adapted from Weather Underground on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.