History Main / WeatherReportNarration

* The first line in ''SinCity'': "The night is hot as hell".

* Inverted in ''{{Amelie}}'', the (more technical than usual) weather report is the final line of the film's TalkyBookends:

* "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" from William Gibson's ''{{Neuromancer}}''.
** Parodied by Neil Gaiman's ''{{Neverwhere}}'': "The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen turned to a dead channel." Because by the time Gaiman was writing, [=TVs=] didn't show static if there wasn't a signal.
* {{Uglies}} begins with "The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." [[{{Squick}} And then describes the diet said cat would need to get all the colors right.]]

* J. K. Rowling seems to be pretty fond of this, instead of just telling you that x months have passed, you get a lovely description of Scottish weather patterns.

WeatherReportNarration is when some of the first words in a story is a comment on the weather. Seen a lot in {{Literature}}, but also shows up in FilmNoir detective stories when the narration begins "The rain was making a jazz drumbeat against my office window when the dame with the case walked in...", or something similar.

* Played with in ''ThrowMommaFromTheTrain''. Larry Donner suffered writer's block to the point that the only thing he had written for his new novel was, "The night was..." He kept trying variations:

** Parodied by Neil Gaiman's ''{{Neverwhere}}'': "The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen turned to a dead channel." Because by the time Gaiman was writing, TVs didn't show static if there wasn't a signal.

* ''{{Dragnet}}'' almost always mentioned the current weather in Los Angeles at the very beginning of the episode.

* "It's Raining Annie" opens AnnieOnMyMind. [[WordOfGod The Author says]] this was the first line written as well.

* EmersonLakeAndPalmer's "Karn Evil 9: First Impression Part One": "Cold and misty morning I heard a warning borne on the air..."
* Parodied in TomWaits' ''Emotional Weather Report'', which ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin true to its title]]) intertwines weather descriptions with descriptions of the narrator's emotional state.

* ''TheGoonShow'', "Dishonoured" (remade as "Dishonoured Again") begins with PeterSellers narrating: "It can be cold in London - damn cold. On such a night as this 80 years ago a ragged idiot staggered into a fog-laden Limehouse area."

* In ''ToKillAMockingbird'', a few paragraphs in you have, "Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square."

** The fact that Owen Lift's badly written story, "Murder at My Friend Harry's" began, "The night was humid...," nearly caused Larry to have a migraine. And Momma Lift's suggestion, "The night was sultry" gives Larry impetus to throw her off a speeding train.

"ItWasADarkAndStormyNight" is the best known example and, by now, a subtrope by itself.

* ''There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.'' — "Red Wind" by RaymondChandler

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* The first line in ''{{Sin City}}'': "The night is hot as hell".

* Inverted in ''{{Amelie}}'', the (more technical than usual) weather report is the final line of the film's TalkyBookends:

* Played with in ''ThrowMommaFromTheTrain''. Larry Donner suffered writer's block to the point that the only thing he had written for his new novel was, "The night was..." He kept trying variations:
-->"The night was dry. Yet it was raining."
-->"The night was hot and wet..."
-->"The night was moist..."

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* In ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'': "It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen".

* ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' parodies this. The narration begins with and keeps mentioning a storm, but in fact the storm is treated as a sentient background character (this ''is'' Discworld, after all).

* Almost all of Garrison Keillor's "Tales from Lake Woebegon" and "Guy Noir, Private Eye" on ''APrairieHomeCompanion''.

* ''TheGoonShow'', "Dishonoured" (remade as "Dishonoured Again") begins with PeterSellers narrating: "It can be cold in London - damn cold. On such a night as this 80 years ago a ragged idiot staggered into a fog-laden Limehouse area."

* ''TheJungleBook'' (specifically, "Mowgli's Brothers") begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest..." (One does wonder why Kipling mentions the specific time, since wolves presumably don't have clocks.)
** Another ''Jungle Book'' story, "Her Majesty's Servants", begins: "It had been raining heavily for one whole month--raining on a camp of thirty thousand men, thousands of camels, elephants, horses, bullocks, and mules all gathered together at a place called Rawalpindi."

* The first line in ''Sin City'' (THE noir comic): "The night is hot as hell".

* ''There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.'' — "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler

* In ''1984'': "It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen".

* J. K. Rowling seems to be pretty fond of this on, instead of just telling you that x months have passed, you get a lovely description of Scottish weather patterns.

"ItWasADarkAndStormyNight" is the best known example and, by now, a subtrope by itself.

-->''September 28th, 1997. It is exactly 11 am. At the funfair, near the ghost train, the marshmallow twister is twisting. Meanwhile, on a bench in Villette Square, Felix Lerbier learns there are more links in his brain than atoms in the universe. Meanwhile, at the Sacre Coeur, the nuns are practising their backhand. The temperature is 24 degrees, humidity 70%, atmospheric pressure 990 millibars.''
Played with in ''ThrowMommaFromTheTrain''. Larry Donner suffered writer's block to the point that the only thing he had written for his new novel was "The night was..." He kept trying variations:
--->"The night was dry. Yet it was raining."
--->"The night was hot and wet..."
--->"The night was moist..."
** The fact that Owen Lift's badly-written story, "Murder at My Friend Harry's" began "The night was humid..." nearly caused Larry to have a migraine. And Momma Lift's suggestion, "The night was sultry" gives Larry impetus to throw her off a speeding train.

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* In ''1984:'' "It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen".
* ''TheJungleBook'' (specifically, "Mowgli's Brothers") begins "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest..." (One does wonder why Kipling mentions the specific time, since wolves presumably don't have clocks.)

* ''There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.'' -- "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler

* ''TheGoonShow'', "Dishonoured" (remade as "Dishonoured Again") begins with PeterSellers narrating: "It can be cold in London - damn cold. On such a night as this eighty years ago a ragged idiot staggered into a fog-laden Limehouse area."

* Paris's ''The Hate That Hate Made'' features the lyrics, "June 6th in the time of 6 o'clock/hot summer night in the city of hard knocks/two black brothers took a walk on the south side/could have been any brother lookin' for a dope ride".
* Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9: First Impression Part One": "Cold and misty morning I heard a warning borne on the air..."

* Almost all of Garrison Keillor's "Tales from Lake Woebegon" and "Guy Noir -- Private Eye" on the ''APrairieHomeCompanion'' radio show.