WEATHERNEWS CELEBRATES THE START OF BASEBALL SEASON

World's Most Experienced Provider of Wireless Weather Delivers Stadium Graphics to Help Baseball Fans Plan for Opening Day

San Francisco, CA, (April 1, 2004) – Weathernews takes you out to the ballgame in honor of opening day. Starting April 5, for a limited time, Weathernews will replace the acclaimed city skyline images featured in its wireless application with stadium skylines for the 28 cities that have baseball home openers.*

Weathernews delivers up-to-the-minute visual forecasts and weather information directly to subscribers' mobile phones. To celebrate the start of the baseball season, Weathernews will feature a photograph of the local baseball stadium along with actual current sky conditions.

“Weathernews is dedicated to building innovative and useful features in our wireless application, so our subscribers can have fun while obtaining important information to help them plan their daily activities,” said Richard O'Connell, Vice President of Marketing and New Media. “In swapping out the city images with stadium skylines, we wanted to give baseball fans an entertaining experience to help them prepare for and look forward to their favorite team's opening day.”

At approximately $3.00/month, Weathernews' wireless application costs less than a hot dog and a beer.

Application Highlights

Weathernews' application works on select handsets from the nation's leading cellular service providers. Its unique city skyline feature displays photographs for 130 major domestic and international locations overlaid with the current weather and sky conditions. Additionally, the application features easy-to-use weather alerts and a detailed vacation planner for popular national and international destinations.

Other features of Weathernews' wireless service include:

	Global Weather Database – Detailed weather information for over 60,000 locations
	Wake Up With Weather™ alarm clock
	My Weather – Preset weather information for up to 5 “favorite” cities
	Airport Weather – current conditions at top US airports incorporating delays and airline phone numbers
	Weather Alerts – SMS text bulletins about specific, user-defined weather information sent directly to the phone
	Radar images
	Moon phases and sunrise/sunset times
	National Weather Service Bulletins

Weathernews Americas Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Weathernews, Inc. Based in Japan, Weathernews, Inc. is the world's largest, publicly-traded, full-service weather company (TSE#1, 4825). A global organization with 38 offices in 14 countries, Weathernews delivers customized, risk communication services to businesses and individuals whose lives or livelihoods are affected by the weather. With over 12,000 business customers and 1,000,000 wireless subscribers worldwide, the company consistently evaluates and evolves existing applications for weather information while exploring additional markets and industries which would benefit operationally and financially from specific weather information and delivery methods. Currently, Weathernews delivers weather information, analysis and risk communication services to some of the largest companies in agriculture, aviation, energy, marine, media, offshore oil and retail. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.weathernews.com.

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