Historical Review of Weather Information in Mass Communication

Through review of weather information on newspapers, broadcasting, television and other kinds of mass media, this essay discussed about the orientation and development of the 150-year communication history of weather information. The whole process can be divided into four periods based on the characteristic of contents, presentation and media category. During the four periods, the coverage and frequency of weather information increased dramatically; the content changed from weather news to weather reports and eventually weather prediction; it expressed in a professional manner after the attempt of diversified style, including entertaining land erosive form; and finally, integrating the information of natural resources, environment as well as health from the global point of view, weather information becomes the crucial parts of modern news.