Editing Weather forecasting (section)

===Broadcasts===
{{see also|Weather presenter}}

The first ever daily weather forecasts were published in ''[[The Times]]'' on August 1, 1861, and the first [[weather map]]s were produced later in the same year.<ref>{{cite web |author=Helen Czerski |date=August 1, 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/23degrees/2011/08/150_years_since_the_first_uk_w.html |title=Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey: 150 years since the first UK weather "forecast" |publisher=BBC |access-date=November 5, 2013 |archive-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327100419/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/23degrees/2011/08/150_years_since_the_first_uk_w.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1911, the [[Met Office]] began issuing the first marine weather forecasts via radio transmission. These included gale and storm warnings for areas around Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/1/f/Fact_sheet_No._8.pdf|title=National Meteorological Library and Fact Sheet 8 – The Shipping Forecast|author=Met Office|date=2012|version=1|pages=3–5|access-date=April 10, 2013|archive-date=July 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160705110246/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/1/f/Fact_sheet_No._8.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In the United States, the first public radio forecasts were made in 1925 by Edward B. "E.B." Rideout, on [[WEZE|WEEI]], the Edison Electric Illuminating station in Boston.<ref name="cyc">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802621.html |title=meteorology Facts, information, pictures &#124; Encyclopedia.com articles about meteorology |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=February 21, 2014 |archive-date=March 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301201545/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802621.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rideout came from the [[National Weather Service|U.S. Weather Bureau]], as did [[WBZ (AM)|WBZ]] weather forecaster G. Harold Noyes in 1931.

[[File:BBC television weather chart - 1936-11-13.jpg|thumb|BBC television weather chart for November 13, 1936]]

The world's first [[Live television|televised]] weather forecasts, including the use of weather maps, were experimentally broadcast by the [[BBC]] in November 1936.<ref name="BBC-60154358">{{cite news |title=BBC Centenary: BBC Weather's most memorable moments - BBC Weather |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/60154358 |access-date=February 12, 2022 |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211202542/https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/60154358 |url-status=live }}</ref> This was brought into practice in 1949, after [[World War II]].<ref name="BBC-60154358" /> [[George Cowling]] gave the first weather forecast while being televised in front of the map in 1954.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/about/newsid_7833000/7833282.stm |title=BBC – Weather – A history of TV weather forecasts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102193118/http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/about/newsid_7833000/7833282.stm|website=BBC Weather|archive-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref><ref name="HUNT">{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/wea.81|title=The end of weather forecasting at Met Office London|journal=Weather|volume=62|issue=6|pages=143–146|year=2007|last1=Hunt|first1=Roger|bibcode=2007Wthr...62..143H|s2cid=122103141 |doi-access=}}</ref> In America, experimental television forecasts were made by [[James C. Fidler]] in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947{{clarify|date=January 2023}} on the [[DuMont Television Network]].<ref name="cyc" /><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/weather/wforund.htm | title=Answers: Understanding weather forecasts | date=February 8, 2006 | work=USA Today | access-date=September 18, 2017 | archive-date=August 13, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813060637/http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wforund.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> In the late 1970s and early 1980s, [[John Coleman (news weathercaster)|John Coleman]], the first weatherman for the [[American Broadcasting Company]] (ABC)'s ''[[Good Morning America]]'', pioneered the use of on-screen [[weather satellite]] data and [[computer graphics]] for television forecasts.<ref name=CJR>[https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/cjr_rewind_hot_air.php CJR Rewind: Hot Air] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222183542/http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/cjr_rewind_hot_air.php |date=December 22, 2016 }}, ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', reprint, first published in the January/February 2010 issue.</ref> In 1982, Coleman partnered with [[Landmark Media Enterprises|Landmark Communications]] CEO [[Frank Batten]] to launch [[The Weather Channel]] (TWC), a 24-hour cable network devoted to national and local weather reports. Some weather channels have started broadcasting on [[Live broadcasting|live streaming platforms]] such as [[YouTube]] and [[Periscope (app)|Periscope]] to reach more viewers.