History Main / WeatherReportOpening

* The first scene in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' shows Phil in the studio giving a weather report to the TV audience.
* The 1981 scifi parody ''Film/TheCreatureWasntNice'':
-->'''Max the computer:''' Goooood morning! It's a bright new day aboard the good ship Vertigo! The time is 8:30 in the a.m. The weather outside is a [[SpaceIsCold brisk 200 degrees below zero!]]

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

* Creator/NeilGaiman
** The famous opening to ''Neuromancer'' is parodied in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' because [[TechnologyMarchesOn by the time Gaiman was writing, TVs didn't show static if there wasn't a signal]].
--->The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen turned to a dead channel.
** An obligatory trope in his parody ''The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds'' as the protagonist is a private eye (it becomes a BrickJoke when the story ends with him ringing up the tourist board to complain because [[GrayRainOfDepression it never stops raining]]).
--->I sat in my office, nursing a glass of hooch and idly cleaning my automatic. Outside the rain fell steadily, like it seems to do most of the time in our fair city, whatever the tourist board says.
* ''Literature/{{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.]]

* In ''Literature/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."

* "It's Raining Annie" opens ''Literature/AnnieOnMyMind''. [[WordOfGod The author says]] this was the first line written as well.
* The second sentence of ''[[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/parsons/castle/castle.html The Castle of Wolfenbach]]'':
-->The evening was cold and tempestuous, the rain poured in torrents, and the distant thunders rolled with tremendous noise round the adjacent mountains, whilst the pale lightning added horrors to the scene.
* ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' starts with "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" (if you discount the prologue).
* ''Literature/AnEncounterAndAnOffer'' has the first few paragraphs telling you all about the day's dreary weather.
* ''Bread Overhead'', a sci-fi comedy by Creator/FritzLeiber, begins with a "blisteringly hot but guaranteed weather-controlled future summer day".
* JustifiedTrope in ''The Long Rain'' by Creator/RayBradbury, given that the rain is the subject of this sci-fi short story [[VenusIsWet set on Venus]].
-->The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men’s hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped.
* Used for DeliberateValuesDissonance in ''Literature/WhoNeedsMen''.
-->It was a fine summer morning -- perfect for [[{{gendercide}} Extermination Day]].
* One of the characters in ''Literature/{{Radiance}}'' is a PrivateDetective, so his introductory scene has the obligatory WeatherReportOpening in first person. As this is an AlternateHistory ScienceFiction novel, the weather is on a habitable Uranus.
* ''Literature/KaneSeries''
** "Reflections on the Winter of My Soul" starts--fittingly--with a description of a winter blizzard.
---> Outside, the blizzard gathered howling force with each minute--a fury of white crystalline coldness whose blasts penetrated the thick stone walls, raced through dark hallways and billowed the heavy tapestries.
** "Mirage" opens with a description of a terribly hot summer day, which saps the strength of a group of mercenaries trying to escape following a lost war.
---> Death came shimmering through the afternoon heat.
* As noted above, the opening line of ''Literature/PaulClifford'' - "[[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight It was a dark and stormy night]]" - is now a trope in its own right, and the phrase itself is better known than the book that spawned it. This was fairly common for author Creator/EdwardBulwerLytton, who coined a number of still-in-use phrases but whose works themselves are rarely read today.
* ''Literature/{{Lightning}}'' by Creator/DeanKoontz begins with a rare snow-and-lightning storm, the importance of which is explained much later.
* Subverted in the Creator/AlistairMacLean novel ''South By Java Head'' which opens with a long description of the cloud of black smoke choking Singapore, which has been bombed by the Japanese.
* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five on Finniston Farm'' begins with Julian saying how hot the weather is, and that living at the Equator would be cool in comparison.
* The children's book ''Literature/MoreAntAndBee'' begins with Ant and Bee sitting in their garden on a hot day, and Bee feeling as hot as a boiled egg. When Ant says that their garden is the hottest place in the world, Bee says that Asia is much hotter, and they decide to visit Asia.

* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': "Radio Bombay" begins with a conversation about the weather.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', "The Marine Biologist ": InUniverse, when George tells the story of how he saved a beached whale.

* Parodied in Music/TomWaits' ''Emotional Weather Report'', which ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin true to its title]]) intertwines weather descriptions with descriptions of the narrator's emotional state.
* The whole song of "Summer in the City" is a weather forecast: hot, humid, and miserable during the day, cooler and less oppressive at night.
* Folk song "One Misty Moisty Morning": "One misty moisty morning when cloudy was the weather/I met with an old man a-clothed all in leather."

* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'', "Dishonoured" (remade as "Dishonoured Again") begins with Creator/PeterSellers narrating: "It can be cold in UsefulNotes/{{London}} - damn cold. On such a night as this 80 years ago a ragged idiot staggered into a fog-laden Limehouse area."
* Every episode of ''Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater'' begins with the words, "It's a foggy night on old Cape Cod."

* The 1981 scifi parody ''The Creature Wasn't Nice'':

** An obligatory trope in his parody ''The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds'' as the protagonist is a private eye. It becomes a BrickJoke when the story ends with him ringing up the tourist board to complain because [[GrayRainOfDepression it never stops raining]].

* ''Literature/{{Kane}}''

* "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" from William Gibson's ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}''.

** The famous opening to ''Neuromancer'' is parodied in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' because by the time Gaiman was writing, [=TVs=] didn't show static if there wasn't a signal.

Weather Report Opening is when some of the first words in a story are 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.

-->The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; [[UpToEleven it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains]]. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men’s hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped.

* Parodied by Neil Gaiman's ''Literature/{{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.
* An obligatory trope in Creator/NeilGaiman's ''The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds'', given that the protagonist is a private eye. (It becomes a BrickJoke when the story ends with him ringing up the tourist board to complain because [[GrayRainOfDepression it never stops raining]].)
-->I sat in my office, nursing a glass of hooch and idly cleaning my automatic. Outside the rain fell steadily, like it seems to do most of the time in our fair city, whatever the tourist board says.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1052763/1/The-Last-Kiss-Goodbye The Last Kiss Goodbye]]'' (a ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' uber fic with Captain Janeway as a private eye) opens with "It was one of those hot LA days when the sun reached down and casually smacked you around the head till you were drenched in sweat like a second rate palooka after a ten-round bout." Not to be outdone, the following night is "one of those cold LA nights when the fog swept in from the ocean and wrapped this tawdry harlot of a town in a thick blanket to hide its phony glitter from the rest of the world." But as the protagonist points out, Hollywood is full of cliches.

* Early in ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'', Selina Kyle remarks, "It's hot. Years from now, when it gets hot at night, people will say 'Its hot, but not as hot as the night Johnny Viti got married.'"

"ItWasADarkAndStormyNight" is the best known example and, by now, a subtrope by itself. AStormIsComing is when this is employed as OminousForeshadowing.

* Including a line about the weather is traditionally part of the opening paragraph when writing (paper) letters to someone in Japan. Here, it's less whether outside it's sunny or rainy or whatever and more about the season -- references to the state of the cherry blossoms or whether the cicadas are out are more in line. For an example, check the pre-credits monologue of Nodoka's letter to her Student Council President predecesor Sokabe-sempai in ''Manga/KOn'' (season 2, episode 7).