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Weather beacon

January 17, 2023

"Weatherball" redirects here. For the antenna-protecting structure, see Radome.

A weather beacon is a beacon that indicates the local weather forecast in a code of colored or flashing lights. Often, a short poem or jingle accompanies the code to make it easier to remember.[1][2]

Weather beacon barometer atop the Westpac Place building in Sydney

The beacon is usually on the roof of a tall building in a central business district, but some are attached to towers. The beacons are most commonly owned by financial services companies and television stations and are part of advertising and public relations programs. They provide a very basic forecast for the general public and not as an aid to navigation.

In addition to displaying weather forecasts, some weather beacons have been used to signal victory or defeat for a professional sports home team.

History

Precursors

In 1898 on the orders of U.S. President William McKinley, coastal warning display towers were installed along the coast of the United States. In 1936, the Weather Girl sculptures were installed in City Hall Square in Copenhagen. In 1938, Douglas Leigh designed a Coca-Cola billboard with a weather forecast display at Columbus Circle in New York City.[3]

Weather beacons

The first attempt to create a weather beacon as a form of advertising was from Douglas Leigh, who, in 1941, arranged a lighting scheme for the Empire State Building to display a weather forecast code with a decoder to be packaged with Coca-Cola bottles. The plan was never implemented because of the attack on Pearl Harbor later that year.[4] Leigh resurrected his idea in Minneapolis in October 1949 with the Northwestern National Bank Weatherball.[5]

In Australia, the Mutual Life and Citizens insurance company installed weather beacons atop its buildings in 1957 and 1958.[6]

Weather beacons were most popular during the 1950s and 1960s.

Similar devices

List of weather beacons

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Weatherball redirects here For the antenna protecting structure see Radome This article uses bare URLs which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting such as Reflinks documentation reFill documentation and Citation bot documentation June 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message A weather beacon is a beacon that indicates the local weather forecast in a code of colored or flashing lights Often a short poem or jingle accompanies the code to make it easier to remember 1 2 Weather beacon barometer atop the Westpac Place building in Sydney The beacon is usually on the roof of a tall building in a central business district but some are attached to towers The beacons are most commonly owned by financial services companies and television stations and are part of advertising and public relations programs They provide a very basic forecast for the general public and not as an aid to navigation In addition to displaying weather forecasts some weather beacons have been used to signal victory or defeat for a professional sports home team Contents 1 History 1 1 Precursors 1 2 Weather beacons 2 Similar devices 3 List of weather beacons 3 1 Australia 3 2 Austria 3 3 Belgium 3 4 Canada 3 5 China 3 6 Denmark 3 7 Finland 3 8 Germany 3 9 Japan 3 10 Sweden 3 11 Turkey 3 12 United Kingdom 3 13 United States 4 Gallery 5 NotesHistory EditPrecursors Edit In 1898 on the orders of U S President William McKinley coastal warning display towers were installed along the coast of the United States In 1936 the Weather Girl sculptures were installed in City Hall Square in Copenhagen In 1938 Douglas Leigh designed a Coca Cola billboard with a weather forecast display at Columbus Circle in New York City 3 Weather beacons Edit The first attempt to create a weather beacon as a form of advertising was from Douglas Leigh who in 1941 arranged a lighting scheme for the Empire State Building to display a weather forecast code with a decoder to be packaged with Coca Cola bottles The plan was never implemented because of the attack on Pearl Harbor later that year 4 Leigh resurrected his idea in Minneapolis in October 1949 with the Northwestern National Bank Weatherball 5 In Australia the Mutual Life and Citizens insurance company installed weather beacons atop its buildings in 1957 and 1958 6 Weather beacons were most popular during the 1950s and 1960s Similar devices EditCoastal warning display tower Signal station Time ball Paris balloon Hibernia Bank Building New Orleans Harbinger at The Met Condos Toronto is a colored beacon on the roof that indicates the current wind speed 7 List of weather beacons EditAustralia Edit New South Wales St George Co operative Building Society Hurstville 16 March 1973 MLC Building 105 North Miller Street North Sydney 31 December 1957 8 Westpac Place Sydney 9 Queensland Hitachi Building MLC Building 239 George Street Brisbane 1976 6pm 26 November 2007 10 11 12 13 14 15 Old MLC Building 243 Edward Street Brisbane 28 July 1958 non functioning South Australia MLC Building now Beacon House Victoria Square Adelaide June 1958 December 1979 16 17 Victoria Carlton amp United Brewery Abbotsford May 1958 6 IOOF Building formerly MLC 303 Collins Street Melbourne 1973 non functioning 6 18 888 Collins Street Melbourne 2016 present 19 Western Australia MLC Building now Kingsgate Apartments 171 St Georges Terrace Perth October 1957 dismantled Austria Edit Wetterleuchtturm Ringturm ViennaBelgium Edit Who s afraid of Red Green and Blue Weather Tower Dexia Tower Brussels 22 October 2007 22 December 2007 20 Canada Edit Capilano Brewery 1550 Burrard Street Vancouver British Columbia 1953 21 White Rose weather beacon 570 Portage Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba 25 June 1964 Kitchener City Hall Kitchener Ontario Canada Life Building Toronto Ontario 9 August 1951 present Canada Life 505 Boulevard Rene Levesque Ouest Montreal Quebec 12 April 1956 January 1976 22 23 24 25 26 The Plains Hotel Regina Saskatchewan 2011 27 28 China Edit Gutzlaff Signal Tower ShanghaiDenmark Edit vejrpigen Weather Girl Richshuset The City Hall Square Copenhagen 1936 present Tomorrow s Weather Aller Media Havneholmen Copenhagen 29 2009 present Finland Edit Nasinneula tower TampereGermany Edit Wettersaule Aachen 30 Japan Edit Tempozan Ferris Wheel Osaka 31 Tsutenkaku OsakaSweden Edit Tomorrow s Weather Stockholm Central Station Stockholm 32 Turkey Edit Beyazit Tower Istanbul 33 United Kingdom Edit Light Towers Project Coventry Point Mercia House Hillman House Coventry 34 35 36 Castlemilk Lighting Project Castlemilk Glasgow 37 Empire Square Tower Southwark London 38 39 40 United States Edit Arizona St Luke s Medical Center Phoenix 1960 February 1969 on The Arizona Bank March 1969 dismantled California Mattei Building formerly Guarantee Savings Fresno 1965 1994 41 42 ABC10 Weather Tower KXTV Sacramento 24 August 2001 2014 non functioning 43 One Rincon Hill South Tower San Francisco 8 December 2008 present 44 Colorado National Farmers Union 1575 Sherman Street Denver 1956 1970 dismantled 45 Florida Mercantile National Bank 420 Lincoln Road Miami Beach 23 February 1957 dismantled American Federal Savings and Loan Association weather ball Fidelity Storage building 53 W Jackson St Orlando 1963 1974 dismantled 46 47 First Federal Savings amp Loan Fourth Street and Central Avenue St Petersburg 1953 6 April 1970 dismantled Illinois Weather Bell Bell Federal Savings now Walgreens 79 West Monroe Street Chicago present 48 49 50 Bell Federal Savings branch office 180 N Michigan Avenue Chicago 1996 dismantled WLS TV Thermometer Marina City Chicago 1964 1978 dismantled 51 WFRL weather beacon State Bank Center 50 West Douglas Street Freeport 1974 dismantled Iowa KCCI Des Moines 1960 1973 1988 2012 non functioning 52 53 American Trust Tower Dubuque 1975 present 54 55 KCAU TV Weather Ball Terra Centre Sioux City 1995 present 56 KVTV KCAU TV Weather Ball Badgerow Building Sioux City 1961 1973 National Bank of Waterloo 315 East Fifth Street Waterloo dismantled Kentucky WLWT Weather Lights Cincinnati Radisson Covington 57 Tomorrow s Weather 21c Museum Hotel Lexington 2016 present 58 59 Louisiana Falstaff Brewery Weather Ball 2601 Gravier St New Orleans 1 August 1952 7 December 1978 2008 present 60 61 62 63 Massachusetts Berkeley Building Boston 15 March 1950 present 64 Michigan Citizens Bank currently Huntington Bank Weatherball Flint 30 October 1956 present 65 13 Weatherball WZZM TV Grand Rapids August 1967 1987 as Michigan National Bank 2003 present 66 67 68 69 Minnesota KCCO Weatherball Alexandria March 2006 WEBC Weather Beacon 331 W Superior Street Duluth 70 Northwestern National Bank Weatherball Minneapolis 7 October 1949 25 November 1982 dismantled 71 72 73 74 75 76 Nicollet Island East Bank branch office 430 East Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis dismantled Riverside branch office 401 Cedar Avenue Minneapolis dismantled Uptown branch office 3006 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis dismantled Hastings branch office 111 E 3rd Street Hastings dismantled Montevideo branch office 109 N 1st Street Montevideo dismantled Rochester branch office 15 2nd Street SW Rochester dismantled 77 Saint Paul branch office 360 Robert Street N Saint Paul dismantled 78 Sauk Rapids branch office 24 N Benton Drive Sauk Rapids 15 September 1961 dismantled 79 WCCO TV Weather Watcher Nicollet Mall Minneapolis 29 November 2013 present Missouri Business Men s Assurance Company BMA weather beacon 215 W Pershing Road Kansas City dismantled 80 81 82 KCTV Tower Kansas City 1970s 2001 Terra Cotta Lofts formerly occupied by the Missouri State Life Insurance Company and later the General American Life Insurance Company 83 1501 Locust Street St Louis 1956 1979 non functioning 84 85 86 87 88 State Bank of Wellston Wellston 1954 16 May 2014 dismantled 89 90 Montana Midland Bank now US Bank Tower 303 N Broadway Billings dismantled 91 Union Bank now Wells Fargo Weatherball 350 N Last Chance Gulch Helena 1959 dismantled 92 Nebraska KMTV Weather Tower N 72nd Street Omaha non functioning New Mexico KOBeacon KOB Sandia Crest Albuquerque 26 December 1966 non functioning New York 1740 Broadway formerly MONY New York City non functioning 93 94 95 AXA Towers MONY Weatherstar Syracuse North Dakota KFYR Provident Life building Bismarck 1954 present 96 97 98 Ohio 12 WKRC Weather Beacon Chiquita Center Cincinnati 1987 1990s 99 100 WKYC Weather Beacon Cleveland present 101 Oklahoma Liberty National Bank and Trust Ramsey Tower City Place Oklahoma City 6 April 1958 dismantled 102 National Bank of Tulsa Weather Teller 320 South Boston Building Tulsa 1 May 1967 1973 103 104 105 106 107 Oregon Standard Insurance Plaza 1100 SW 6th Avenue Portland 1964 present 108 109 110 111 112 Weather Machine Pioneer Courthouse Square Portland 24 August 1988 present Pennsylvania WJAC TV Weather Beacon Johnstown Pennsylvania 1963 present 113 Handy Flame Equitable Gas 420 Boulevard of the Allies Pittsburgh 1956 1972 dismantled KDKA TV Weather Beacon Gulf Tower Pittsburgh late 1970s present Updated in 2012 114 115 WTAE TV Weather Cone Carnegie Science Center Pittsburgh 2000 present 116 117 Berks County Courthouse 633 Court Street Reading 1995 118 119 South Dakota KELO TV weatherball Sherman Hotel Aberdeen dismantled 120 KDLO TV weatherball Marvin Hughitt Hotel 375 Dakota S Huron 6 April 1960 dismantled First National Bank Pierre KELO weatherball 100 North Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls dismantled National Bank of South Dakota now US Bank 141 N Main Avenue Sioux Falls non functioning 121 122 East Branch East 10th amp Omaha Sioux Falls dismantled South Branch 33rd amp Minnesota Sioux Falls non functioning 123 124 Sunset Branch West 41st amp Louise Avenue dismantled KDLO weatherball tower 421 9th Av SE Watertown dismantled 125 KXLG Weatherball 835 Jensen Avenue Watertown 22 May 2014 present 126 Tennessee Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company Maclellan Building 721 Broad Street Chattanooga 12 January 1952 dismantled 127 128 Life amp Casualty Tower Nashville non functioning 129 130 Texas WNL Weather Tower Western National Life Insurance 205 SE 10th Avenue Amarillo dismantled Mercantile Weather Tower Mercantile National Bank Building Dallas 1958 1993 12 February 2008 present 131 132 133 Blue Flame Building 100 North Stanton Street El Paso 26 March 1955 27 July 2021 present 134 Texas National Bank Conoco Weather Eye Travis Tower 1300 Main Street Houston 17 October 1955 1964 dismantled 135 136 137 138 139 140 Alamo National Bank weather spire now Drury Plaza Hotel 105 S St Mary s Street San Antonio non functioning 141 142 Utah Ford s Finance amp Insurance 2627 Washington Boulevard Ogden dismantled KSL TV 5 Eyewitness Weather Tower Trolley Square Salt Lake City 1999 present 143 KTVX Weather Ball 2175 West 1700 South Salt 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