China News Service Client Beijing, July 7th (Reporter Zhang Xi) Today, a 40-year-old birthday was greeted by a program to watch Evergreen.

　　Every day in the past 40 years, it has accompanied the audience warmly and coldly. Although only a few minutes, but it is one of the most popular programs people watch.

　　It is the "Weather Forecast" broadcast every night at 19:31.

"Weather forecast" Image source: video screenshot

　　In addition to transmitting meteorological information, this program also records social changes. In the era when there was no smartphone or high-speed rail, many people used this program to understand the weather conditions in various parts of the motherland, whether it was flying snow or high sunshine.

　　Some netizens lamented that this is the only TV program in their life that they have watched for almost a lifetime.

Image source: Weibo screenshot

Image source: Weibo screenshot

　　The birth of "Hybrid Weather Forecast" will start in 1979.

　　At that time coincided with the initial stage of reform and opening up, Wang Shiping, who was then the leader of the Central Meteorological Observatory, went to Japan to investigate. In a noisy izakaya, a program suddenly calmed everyone down.

　　On the screen, a young man pointed to a map behind to explain the weather. Outside the screen, people watched TV in unison and did not continue to drink and chat until a few minutes of explanation.

　　This surprised Wang Shiping, so on his way back to China, after discussing with the delegation, he decided to "engage" this wide-ranging and easy-to-understand television weather forecast service.

Image source: Official Weibo of "Newscast Weather Forecast"

　　On July 7, 1980, after many consultations between the former State Meteorological Administration and CCTV, the "Weather Forecast" program appeared on CCTV's "Newscast". The first generation host came from the Central Meteorological Observatory, one was the weather forecaster Han Jiangang, and the other was Li Yuan from the meteorological observatory drawing room.

　　In the first one and a half months, as soon as the data from the Central Meteorological Observatory came out at 17:00 in the afternoon, the program team would immediately change the professional terminology to a plain and easy-to-understand television language, and then the two presenters rushed to the center with the manuscripts that had not been dried out. TV stations, as soon as "Newscast" is over, they will immediately broadcast the "weather forecast".

　　At that time, the conditions were poor and the technology was backward. The background of the broadcast is a gray pleated screen, and the camera equipment is an old one-inch machine of the TV station. The content of the broadcast is mainly the national weather situation, the weather forecast of a few major cities, and special weather warnings.

　　Han Jiangang later recalled that there were no current cold-light lamps in the live broadcast room. Several headlights turned on for more than forty degrees. However, for live recording, fans could not be turned on, often sweating.

Han Jiangang Image source: China Meteorological Administration

　　In the impression of many people, whenever they hear the music of "The Fishing Boat Singing Evening", they will think of "Weather Forecast".

　　In fact, the choice of this piece of music was initially called "accident". At that time, the program ushered in a major change and was independently produced by the Meteorological Department. When choosing a background music, everyone was slow to make up their minds. In the end, the keyboard version of "The Fishing Boat Singing Evening" recommended by Qu Shengpu was unanimously approved.

　　No one expected that this song would be a symbol of "Weather Forecast" for decades after it was broadcast. Qu Shengpu later said that at the time of the election, it just felt that the song was "happy and not tumultuous."

　　The other iconic character in Weather Forecast is Song Yingjie.

On March 1, 1993, the host of the meteorological program began to walk from behind the scenes to the CCTV TV screen. The picture shows the popular weather host Song Yingjie

　　In 1993, Song Yingjie, who graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology (now Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology) with a major in weather dynamics, began to be the host of Weather Forecast.

　　At that time, due to the use of keying technology, there was only a blue cloth behind the host. Because of the meteorology department, Song Yingjie knew the geography knowledge. He wrapped the tape with a small paper tube and made a temporary "indicator rod". It took Within a week, he became familiar with the "blind finger".

　　With a professional background, intellectual image and natural witty language style, Song Yingjie soon became a household name and was called "Mr. Breath".

　　Song Yingjie said the first public apology for "Weather Forecast".

　　On December 12, 1999, combined with the forecast data from the Meteorological Department, the program team considered that a very weak cold air would begin to enter the North China region that night, but the water vapor conditions were not very good, so the North China region was forecasted to have on the 13th North winds of grade 4 to 5 are difficult to snowfall.

　　But the next day, Song Yingjie opened the curtains and looked snowy outside. He publicly apologized on the 13th program, "Yesterday we noticed that there will be a weak cold air affecting North China, and it was also forecasted to be windy, but the possibility of snowfall is underestimated, so today we have been thinking A deep apology. Only by summing up every mistake can we make the weather forecast more accurate and satisfy people."

The picture shows the virtual implantation of scenes by TV weather forecast. Image source: Website of China Meteorological Administration

　　Over the past 40 years, batches of meteorological programs have emerged. With the support of rich information resources and service product resources such as high-performance computers, numerical weather forecasting, satellite remote sensing, and Doppler radar, they have become meteorological information dissemination and early warning forecasts. An important channel for the publication and promotion of meteorological science.

　　Similarly, "Weather Forecast" is constantly improving and perfecting. The forecast time has been expanded from the next 24 hours to 48 or even 72 hours; the content has added forecasts of haze and air pollution meteorological grades of public concern, as well as various early warnings such as forest fire hazards and geological disasters; high-tech products such as meteorological satellites and radars are also frequent Appearance; professional meteorological nouns have been replaced with easy-to-understand phrases; vague words such as "partial regions" and "southeast of northwest regions" have also been refined to specific regions as much as possible...

　　40 years, a lot of changes, but the same is the daily business hours at 19:31.

　　@"Weather forecast", happy birthday! Thank you for staying with us for so many years. (Finish)