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- Title
Weerpraatjes: De doorbraak van de weersverwachting, 1930-1950.
- Authors
Baneke, David
- Abstract
Weather talk. The public breakthrough of weather forecasts in the Netherlands, 1930-1950 When did weather forecasts become a part of everyday life? In this paper I argue that the period from 1930 to 1950 was crucial in the development of public weather forecasts in the Netherlands – more than half a century after the introduction of scientific weather forecasts c.1880. This period saw a change in the scientific foundation of the forecasts, as well as a new public-oriented communication approach. I argue that weather reports were an integral part of the new radio-centered media culture, and that they played an important, if inconspicuous, role in postwar scarcity management and reconstruction efforts. This paper is based on rich archival research, including a collection of unique letters from radio listeners from 1947.
- Subjects
WEATHER forecasting; GEOPHYSICAL prediction; COMMUNICATION; SCARCITY; ARCHIVAL research
- Publication
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 2024, Vol 137, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0040-7518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/TvG2024.1.004.BANE