As hurricane season kicks into high gear and Hurricane Debby threatens to make landfall, residents along the East Coast and Gulf Coast will be looking for the most up-to-date weather reports to help prepare for the storm. WeatherBug.com_TM, which provides a computer download for your PC, provides coastal residents and weather watchers nationwide an "I," or Internet-look at the storm as it prepares to hit. WeatherBug receives its data from the Live StormTracker, the world's first and only real-time mobile Internet Weather Resource Center. The StormTracker, an SUV specially equipped with state-of-the-art weather monitoring and forecasting equipment, gives users real-time weather conditions from the heart of the hurricane.

"The WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker will be an important resource for emergency staff, meteorologists, press reporters and communities nationwide," said Bob Marshall, president and CEO of AWS, Inc.-the makers of the WeatherBug_TM. "Our real-time weather information helps to better prepare and inform communities facing severe weather, so that loss of life and property can be lessened."

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The WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker-a technically enhanced Dodge Durango-is outfitted with an up-to-the-second weather monitoring station called an AirWatch_TM Weather System and an InstaCam_TM web-ready camera. This state-of-the-art equipment, developed by AWS, relays live weather data and images via the Internet to WeatherBug_TM desktops nationwide. The data is also displayed on large electronic signs and monitors mounted on the truck for people on-site to keep an eye on the conditions at hand. The WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker is also equipped with two computers, a printer and Internet access that will be used to receive valuable information on storm track, forecasts and warnings. AWS on-site meteorologists will use that information to brief reporters and emergency management personnel. This type of timely information has never before been available on-site, making the WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker an indispensable resource during severe storm situations.

To see the WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker in action, download the WeatherBug_TM desktop tool at WeatherBug.com: user-friendly directions for the free download are posted on the website. After downloading the WeatherBug_TM, users instantly gain access, not only to the WeatherBug.com Live StormTracker, but also to more than 4,000 AWS neighborhood WeatherNet_TM sites that make up the world's largest automated weather network. Nowhere else can you find weather data this live or this local.

AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (AWS) is the world's largest real-time information network providing viewers with up-to-the-second weather, sports and news via the Internet and local television broadcast stations nationwide. Established in 1993, AWS is the parent corporation of AWS WeatherBug_TM and WeatherNet. Best known for its innovative Worldwide School WeatherNet, AWS is a recognized leader of pioneering web applications and is a first-in-class, best-in-class high tech publishing enterprise known around the globe.

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