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A 'weather beacon' is a beacon that indicates the 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. (example)
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.

Contents

List of weather beacons

Australia

Canada

Germany

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States

See also

Notes

List of weather beacons

Australia

★ New South Wales

★
★ MLC Building, North Sydney ^[1]

★
★ Westpac Place, Sydney ^[2]

★ Queensland

★
★ Hitachi Building (MLC Building), Brisbane ^{[3] [4] [5]}

★
★ Old MLC Building, 243 Edward Street, Brisbane (non-functioning) ^[6]

★ South Australia

★
★ Beacon House (MLC Building), Adelaide ^{[7] [8]}

★ Victoria

★
★ IOOF Building (formerly MLC), 303 Collins Street, Melbourne (non-functioning) ^{[9] [10]}

★
★ Carlton & United Brewery, Abbotsford ^[10]

Canada

★ Canada Life Building, Toronto, Ontario

Germany

★ Die Aachener Wettersäule, Aachen ^[12]

Turkey

★ Beyazıt Tower, Istanbul ^[13]

United Kingdom

★ Light Towers Project (Coventry Point, Mercia House, Hillman House), Coventry ^{[14] [15] [16]}

United States

★ California

★
★ Mattei Building (formerly Guarantee Savings), Fresno (non-functioning) ^[17]

★
★ KXTV Weather Tower, Sacramento ^[18]

★ Florida

★
★ American Federal Savings and Loan Association weather ball, Fidelity Storage building, 53 W. Jackson St., Orlando (1963 – 1974; dismantled) ^{[19] [20]}

★ Illinois

★
★ Weather Bell, Bell Federal Savings Building (street level), 79 West Monroe Street, Chicago ^{[21] [22] [23]}

★
★
★ Bell Federal Savings branch office, Michigan Avenue, Chicago ^[24]

★
★ WLS-TV Thermometer, Marina City, Chicago (1964 – 1978; dismantled) ^[25]

★ Iowa

★
★ KCCI, Des Moines ^{[26] [27] [28]}

★
★ American Trust Tower, Dubuque

★
★ KCAU-TV Weather Ball, Terra Centre, Sioux City ^[29]

★ Louisiana

★
★ Falstaff Brewery Weather Ball, New Orleans (1 August 1952 – 7 December 1978) ^{[30] [31] [32]}

★ Massachusetts

★
★ Berkeley Building, Boston

★ Michigan

★
★ Citizens Bank Weatherball, Flint ^[33]

★
★ 13 Weatherball, WZZM-TV, Grand Rapids ^{[34] [35] [36] [37]}

★ Minnesota

★
★ Northwestern National Bank Weatherball, Minneapolis (7 October 1949 – November 1982; dismantled) ^{[38] [39] [40] [41] [42]}

★
★
★ Saint Paul branch office (dismantled) ^[43]

★
★
★ Montevideo branch office

★
★
★ seven more Northwestern branch offices

★
★ WEBC Weather Beacon, Duluth

★ Missouri

★
★ KCTV Tower, Kansas City

★
★ BMA weather beacon, 215 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City (dismantled) ^[44]

★
★ Terra Cotta Lofts and Red Moon Restaurant (formerly Great American Life Insurance Company building), St. Louis (1956 – 1979) ^{[45] [46] [47]}

★ Montana

★
★ US Bank Tower, Billings (dismantled) ^[48]

★
★ Union Bank Weather Ball, Helena ^[49]

★ Nebraska

★
★ KMTV Weather Tower, N. 72nd Street, Omaha

★ New York

★
★ MONY Building, W. 55th Street & Broadway, New York City ^{[50] [51]}

★
★ AXA (MONY) Weatherstar, Syracuse

★ North Dakota

★
★ Provident Beacon, Bismarck ^{[52] [53] [54]}

★ Ohio

★
★ Chiquita Center, Cincinnati (non-functioning) ^[55]

★ Oklahoma

★
★ First Liberty Bank, Ramsey Tower/City Place, Oklahoma City (dismantled) ^[56]

★
★ NBT Weather Teller, 320 South Boston, Tulsa ^{[57] [58] [59]}

★ Oregon

★
★ Standard Insurance Plaza, Portland ^{[60] [61] [62] [63] [64]}

★
★ ''Weather Machine'', Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

★ Pennsylvania

★
★ WTAE-TV Weather Watch, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh ^{[65] [66]}

★
★ Gulf Tower, Pittsburgh (non-functioning) ^{[67] [68]}

★ South Dakota

★
★ KELO weatherball, Sherman Hotel, Aberdeen (dismantled) ^[69]

★
★ First National Bank, Pierre

★
★ US Bank building, 141 N. Main Avenue, Sioux Falls (non-functioning) ^[70]

★ Tennessee

★
★ Provident Weather Beacon, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company (now Unum), Maclellan Building, Chattanooga (dismantled) ^{[71] [72]}

★ Texas

★
★ Mercantile Weather Tower, Mercantile National Bank Building, Dallas (dismantled) ^[73]

★
★ Texas National Bank (later Conoco) Weather Eye, Travis Tower, Houston (17 October 1955 – 1964) ^{[74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79]}

★
★ Alamo National Bank weather spire (now Drury Plaza Hotel), San Antonio ^{[80] [81]}

★ Utah

★
★ KSL-TV 5 Eyewitness Weather Tower, Trolley Square, Salt Lake City ^[82]

★ Wisconsin

★
★ Weather Flame, Wisconsin Gas Building, Milwaukee ^{[83] [84] [85]}

See also

★ Coastal warning display tower

★ Radome

★ Time ball

Notes

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4. http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/stories/s681600.htm
5. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=hitachibuilding-brisbane-australia
6. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=13548675&postcount=12
7. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=mlcbuilding-adelaide-australia
8. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21476377-2682,00.html
9. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=108449
10. http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/1032.html
11. http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/1032.html
12. http://www.stawag.de/privat_gewerbe_kunden/aachen_live/wettersaeule.html
13. http://www.mersina.com/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/beyazit_tower.html
14. http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/covkids/helenshighlights/tm_headline=put-that-light-out-&method=full&objectid=11417831&siteid=50003-name_page.html
15. http://www.cwn.org.uk/designawards/2001/three-towers.htm
16. http://www.mondiale.co.uk/mondoarc/coventry/coventry.html
17. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=matteibuilding-fresno-ca-usa
18. http://www.news10.net/weather/tower-key-lights.aspx
19. Short Play Brings Rainmaker's 1939 Tale Back to Life Joy Wallace Dickinson
20. http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/community_downtown_blog/2007/02/history_of_the_.html
21. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=bellsavingsbuilding-chicago-il-usa
22. http://www.chicagotime.zoomshare.com/album/Clocks%20of%20Chicago%201/images/92d212736c5695a94523e2e49d538660_11626637280/%3aalbum?
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24. http://www.chicagotime.zoomshare.com/album/Clocks%20of%20Chicago%201/images/935c1c921c70bc36dae4cd282d3c59ef_11626636100/:album
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27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwestendorf/495937768/
28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwestendorf/354861809/
29. http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=290732&nav=menu110_6
30. http://clarionherald.org/20010301/stall.htm
31. http://www.urbanconservancy.org/news/roundup/archive/503
32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/oetiii/254053736/
33. http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2006/11/having_a_ball_a.html
34. http://www.wzzm13.com/weather/weatherball.asp
35. http://www.grbj.com/GRBJ/Nav/Weather+Ball+History.htm
36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38305699@N00/84653798
37. http://www.valleycitysign.com/entertainment/weatherball.html
38. http://www.kare11.com/news/investigative/extras/wondering_article.aspx?storyid=243246
39. http://blog.wellsfargo.com/GuidedByHistory/2007/02/weatherball.html
40. http://www.mnhs.org/exhibits/weather/weatherball.htm
41. http://www.mpls.lib.mn.us/history/bi2.asp
42. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3799/is_200110/ai_n8962737
43. http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=115809&Page=1&Keywords=weatherball&SearchType=Basic&bhjs=1&bhqs=1
44. http://www.hoachorus.com/harmonotes/Dec05Harmonotes.pdf
45. http://www.terracottalofts.com/bldghistory.asp
46. http://www.blacktie-stlouis.com/premiere_events/largepics.cfm?id=24996&partyid=1432&picorder=
47. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=terracottalofts-streetlouis-mo-usa
48. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=216722
49. http://www.lifelikecharm.com/helena_last_chance_gulch.htm
50. http://www.gothamist.com/2004/10/21/find_another_weather_forecast.php
51. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=115152
52. http://www.co.burleigh.nd.us/information/default.asp?ID=349
53. http://www.bismarckmandanblog.com/index.php?m=11&y=06&entry=entry061114-004142
54. http://www.bismarckmandanblog.com/etc/wx_beacon/beacon_after.htm
55. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=chiquitacenter-cincinnati-oh-usa
56. http://books.google.com/books?id=4dz2XwSzSKEC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22weather+beacon%22+%22oklahoma+city%22&source=web&ots=Wc-AsNw0-b&sig=6GVF-IjtOoYxsQG8muL2OKXZ7uU#PPA23,M1
57. http://www.tulsatvmemories.com/weather.html#nbt
58. http://www.tulsahistory.org/learn/sites/site80.html
59. http://www.flickr.com/photos/losttulsa/62459028/
60. http://www.pdxmagazine.com/Nov_issue_06.pdf
61. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=standardinsuranceplaza-portland-or-usa
62. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/portland_news/1165533920275330.xml&coll=7
63. http://simplifiedchinese.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=Gallun&number=16&album_id=8&thumbstart=0&gallery=
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65. http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/default.aspx?pageId=47
66. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_279267.html
67. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=gulfbuilding-pittsburgh-pa-usa
68. http://www.cparchives.com/archive.cfm?type=You%20Had%20to%20Ask&action=getComplete&ref=2497
69. http://www.topix.net/content/kri/1954371012356518807938181913012655219491
70. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=usbankbuilding-siouxfalls-sd-usa
71. http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_100608.asp
72. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=maclellanbuilding-chattanooga-tn-usa
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76. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=travistower-houston-tx-usa
77. http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=6006085yc.jpg
78. http://www.wxresearch.org/newsletter/FALL95.TXT
79. http://www.sixflagshouston.com/photos/Historical-Photos/globe
80. http://www.druryhotels.com/properties/Alamo.cfm
81. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=druryplazahotelsanantonioriverwalk-sanantonio-tx-usa
82. http://web.ksl.com/TV/content/weather/p-tower.htm
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