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Weather Report Opening
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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 Film Noir 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. "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" is the best known example and, by now, a subtrope by itself. A Storm Is Coming is when this is employed as Ominous Foreshadowing. For another atmospheric beginning, see "Pan from the Sky" Beginning. |
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The Name of the Rose starts with "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" (if you discount the prologue). | |
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Dragnet almost always mentioned the current weather in Los Angeles at the very beginning of the episode. | |
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An Encounter and an Offer has the first few paragraphs telling you all about the day's dreary weather. | |
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Ancient Languages opens with, "It was a Tuesday morning, the sky was black, and the earth seemed to tremble with the mighty rumbling of the thunder. The rain was coming down in sheets, and the wind whipped the trees around like they were twigs." | |
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The Little Sister: "It was one of those clear, bright summer mornings we get in the early spring in California before the high fog sets in. The rains are over. The hills are still green and in the valley across the Hollywood hills you can see snow on the high mountains." | |
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Our Miss Brooks: "Radio Bombay" begins with a conversation about the weather. | |
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Early in The Long Halloween, Selina Kyle remarks, "It's hot. Years from now, when it gets hot at night, people will say 'It's hot, but not as hot as the night Johnny Viti got married.'" | |
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four: "It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." | |
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The famous opening to Neuromancer is parodied in Neverwhere because by the time Gaiman was writing, TVs didn't show static if there wasn't a signal. | |
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One of the characters in Radiance is a Private Detective, so his introductory scene has the obligatory Weather Report Opening in first person. As this is an Alternate History Science Fiction novel, the weather is on a habitable Uranus. | |
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The first line in Sin City: "The night is hot as hell". | |
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Lightning by Dean Koontz begins with a rare snow-and-lightning storm, the importance of which is explained much later. | |
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Seinfeld, "The Marine Biologist ": In-Universe, when George tells the story of how he saved a beached whale. | |
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Inverted in Amélie, the (more technical than usual) weather report is the final line of the film's Talky Bookends: | |
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Wyrd Sisters 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). | |
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The Day Santa Stopped Believing In Harold: The story begins with "one stormy night". | |
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Legendary Genesis: The story has been criticized for its flowery opening paragraph. | |
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The first scene in Groundhog Day shows Phil in the studio giving a weather report to the TV audience. | |
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, 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." | |
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"Remember Angola", the first slash fanzine of The Professionals printed and sold (in 1981) started thus: | |
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Almost all of Garrison Keillor's "Tales from Lake Woebegon" and "Guy Noir, Private Eye" on A Prairie Home Companion. | |
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Fawlty Towers: "The Wedding Party" begins with the Major commenting on how warm the weather is that evening, setting the scene for Polly and some of the guests being scantily clad. | |
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The Big Sleep: "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills." The fact that it's mid October is relevant to the timeline of events, and the rain shows up later as an example of Empathic Environment. | |
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Kane Series "Reflections on the Winter of My Soul" starts—fittingly—with a description of a winter blizzard. "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. |
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"It's Raining Annie" opens Annie on My Mind. The author says this was the first line written as well. | |
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Ripping Yarns, "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite": The episode starts with a very thorough report about rainy weather. It's Eric's voice over narration. | |
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The Jungle Book: "Mowgli's Brothers", and thus the book itself, 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.) "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." |
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Uglies begins with "The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." And then describes the diet said cat would need to get all the colors right. | |
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Literally the first words heard in Kiki's Delivery Service, from Kiki's (father's) transistor radio, are a weather forecast. | |
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The Famous Five 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. | |
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The Goon Show, "Dishonoured" (remade as "Dishonoured Again") begins with Peter Sellers 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." | |
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Played with in Throw Momma from the Train. Larry Donner suffers writer's block to the point that the only thing he had written for his new novel is, "The night was..." He kept trying variations: 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 perfect suggestion, "The night was sultry" gives Larry impetus to throw her off a speeding train. |
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