I saw this article on the local paper's website a few days ago. It talks about a weather beacon being reinstalled on the Walker Center in Salt Lake City. That in itself didn't do much for me since I didn't grow up here, but it did remind me of the weather beacon I did grow up with in Fresno, CA.
For years during my youth I remember the giant "G" glowing various colors on top of the Guarantee Savings bank building. I don't even remember what they all meant, but the colors would be red, green, or white, and it could possibly be flashing. You could see it for miles around, even from my farm. (Yes, Fresno is a pretty flat place.)
You should be able to see it in this picture below.
According to this article on Wikipedia, it no longer works. However, this website referred to by the Wikipedia one seems to say otherwise. I hope it's true that it works. There aren't too many around and although these days you could just fire up weather.com to see what the weather is, there was nothing like that big "G" slowly turning on top of that building.
So let's say you want your own way to see what the weather is going to be. According to the Salt Lake City paper, it's going to cost $500,000 to put the Walker sign back up. You could do it for a lot less. Go ahead and look out a window at a tall building in the distance like the Guarantee Savings building I could see while growing up. I'll wait. Got it? Good. Now if you look around the building and see blue, the weather is clear. If you see water, it's raining. If you see white, it's snowing. If you see nothing but black, it's night. If you see...
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