weather forecasting founded ames iowa 1973 headquarters des moines iowa usa key people harvey freese co founder charles notis co founder d. r. arthur cio services meteorological doppler weather radar imaging dsl video weather services forensic meteorology commodities forecasts zipcode weather data weather forecasting services website www.weather.net www.energy.net the freese notis weather company commonly known as freese notis is a weather forecasting corporation . headquartered in des moines iowa united states it has a global presence in the fields of meteorology analytics and related services and also provides internet access dsl and web hosting services . the company strengths for natural gas and energy markets now creates forecasts spanning industries such as media and web content found in the united states and foreign countries . company history edit charlie notis and harvey freese both were students at iowa state university in 1973 . the company originated on the iowa state university campus in nearby ames while they were post grad students at iowa state during the 1973 oil crisis . the partnership was formalized on may 1 1973 with a typewriter as its first piece of office equipment and acted as collateral for shares of stock . a friend of harvey and charlie suggest to name the enterprise freese notis weather . 1 during the first couple years of existence some of the radio listeners during the summer months would get confused when the radio announcer would introduce the freese notis forecast that some thought was a freeze notice forecast . in 1995 quote.com became one of the early users of content written by meteorologists highlighting weather with commodity symbols for easy access by traders . shortly after that both sponsored and subscriber based web pages were added to successful farming magazine s site through the portal for the agribusiness and producer audience . doppler weather radar imaging for the site called interrad 2 provided a national regional and local views across the contiguous states plus the district of columbia but geared to the farmer . the service evolved to a second generation even more tuned to use with web portals after the year 2000 to include mobile applications and other kinds of weather map displays . in 1995 other web sites added sponsored content pieces and subscription services . the azurix company added content from freese notis containing weather information related to water consumption and use . irrigation users of the azurix web site had a perspective on risk management with freese notis weather providing a series of maps outlining the trends for their operations . freese notis had also been the recipients of 3 christmas baskets from enron trading for appreciation of their weather forecasting services multiple times even in 2001 making the final cut despite the troubles within that firm . the general model later switched to either advertising based or sponsor based types of web content . only the site energy.net and hoovers remain for subscriber access in the current form of the internet with paid contract access . references edit http www.weather.net html about.html trademark applications and registrations retrieval serial number 76155870 interrad united states patent and trademark office 2000 10 30 . retrieved 2002 09 17 . the christmas baskets have been ordered . . trampoline . trampoline systems . december 12 1999 . retrieved 2004 03 14 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title freese notis & oldid 740706475 categories companies established in 1973meteorological companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 19 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view