WeatherMatrix is a worldwide organization of over 10,000 online amateur and professional weather enthusiasts -- meteorologists, storm chasers and spotters, and weather observers from all parts of the globe.

The roots of WeatherMatrix can be traced back to my college days at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. As early as 1991, I began to actively pursue and investigate storms locally -- thunderstorms, hurricanes, snowstorms, whatever was happening in North Carolina. In 1995 I started documenting my trips with my first videocamera (now serving as WeatherMatrix WeatherCam #1). I also worked on the website for the Atmospheric Sciences Department and immediately fell in love with the Web and the systems that drove it.

In reality, the term Matrix was coined in the 1984 by Science Fiction writer William Gibson. "The Matrix" was a global information network, which is what WeatherMatrix is -- a global information network of weather enthusiasts.   More detail...