By Stephan Herrera Forget sex.
Weather is one of the leading reasons people log on to the Internet today.
Gone are the days when weather was dull. Fresh from the hugely profitable sale of his last venture, a 3D weather graphics software firm called EarthWatch which took off during the Persian Gulf War and was deployed in Jurassic Park and Twister Mr. Kruhoeffer is set to launch a novel Web-and wireless based weather forecasting venture called Digital Cyclone. National Weather Service reports, the source of most national forecasts, are updated only twice a day and cover a 17-mile radius. It can cost millions to shut down a company especially an assembly plant or power station because of weather precautions. All too often, plant managers do just that, only to watch a forecasted storm skitter by, two counties away.