* 1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report )

* 1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bassist ( Weather Report )( d. 1987 )

* 1932 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American composer and keyboardist ( Weather Report ) ( d. 2007 )

* 1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer ( Sly & the Family Stone and Weather Report )

* 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer ( Weather Report and Trio of Doom ) ( b. 1951 )

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

With Weather Report

Other drummers that influenced Chamberlin around the recording of Zeitgeist included Bobby Caldwell of Captain Beyond, Lalo Schifrin's Dirty Harry soundtrack, Weather Report, and Return to Forever's Lenny White.

The jazz fusion of the 1970s often had considerable stylistic cross-over with rock, and groups like Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report had sizable followings among rock fans.

On April 1, 1976 Jaco officially joined Weather Report where he became world-famous.

Category: Weather Report members

* March 2 ( to March 4 ) – Weather Report, The CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Stephen Stills, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel, plus Cuban acts Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Elena Burke, Los Papines, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón play at the historic three-day Havana Jam festival at the Karl Marx Theater, in Havana, Cuba.

In 1979, Kris Kristofferson traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival that took place between March 2 – 4, alongside Rita Coolidge, Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Weather Report, and Billy Joel, plus an array of Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Alongside Chick Corea's Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock ’ s Headhunters, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Pat Metheny Group, Spyro Gyra and the early 1970s Frank Zappa and Miles Davis electric bands, Weather Report is considered to be one of the pre-eminent jazz fusion bands, although the band members themselves disdained the term.

As a continuous working unit, Weather Report outlasted all of its contemporaries despite frequent changes of personnel, with a career lasting sixteen years between 1970 and 1986.

From the start, Weather Report took the unusual and innovative approach of abandoning the traditional " soloist / accompaniment " demarcation of straight-ahead jazz and instead featuring opportunities for continuous improvisation by every member of the band.

Having originally made his name as a pioneering electric piano player, he went on to consistently develop the role of the synthesizer in jazz during his time with Weather Report.

In Weather Report, he often employed a vocoder as well as pre-recorded sounds played ( i. e., filtered and transposed ) through a synthesizer, creating a very distinctive, often beautiful, synthesis of jazz harmonics and " noise " ( which he referred to as " using all the sounds the world generates ").

His choice not to follow the same approach with Weather Report led to some criticism of the group.

During his time with Weather Report, Shorter was noted for generally playing saxophone with an economical, " listening " style.

Weather Report maintained a consistent interest in a textured sound and developments in music technology and processing.

Erskine and ( later on ) Omar Hakim were the only Weather Report drummers that played with the band for more than two years.

In consequence, Weather Report has often been seen as a spin-off from the Miles Davis bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, although Zawinul was never part of Davis's touring line-up.

Weather Report was initially formed in order to explore a more impressionistic and individualistic music ( or, as Zawinul put it, " away from all that eight bars shit and then you go to the bridge …")

As daylight began to show through the frosty windows, Fogg would place a call to William A. Shaw at the U. S. Weather Station at Northfield, Vermont, for temperature and wind-velocity readings.

In July 1963, the 4028th Strategic Reconnaissance Weather Wing, equipped with U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft, began flying global missions from Davis-Monthan.

On October 30, 2009, The Weather Channel, in a move deemed controversial by many longtime viewers, began airing weather related movies on Friday nights.

On 1973's Sweetnighter, Weather Report began to abandon the primarily-acoustic group improvisation format, and the band started to take a new direction.

During the year's touring, Shorter began to feel sidelined by the current Weather Report's aggressive drive and the sometimes overly-macho musical interplay between Pastorius and Zawinul, which on at least one occasion squeezed him out of band performance.

Towards the end of the year, Pastorius began working on his long-delayed second solo album ( Word of Mouth ) in New York, while Zawinul worked on new Weather Report material in California.

On October 13, 2008, WGN-TV began providing weather forecasts for WGN Radio through a partnership between the two stations ; this came as WGN Radio ended a ten-year partnership with The Weather Channel to provide local forecasts for the station.

In the 1953 Atlantic season, the United States Weather Bureau began naming storms which reach tropical storm intensity with human names.

Operational use from the airfield began in February 1947 when the 347th Fighter Group ( All Weather ) began operating P-61 Black Widow interceptor aircraft, which were used to provide air defense for Japan.

In 1985, the National Weather Service forecast offices began experimenting with putting special digital codes at the beginning and end of every message concerning life-or property-threatening weather conditions targeting a specific area.

At approximately 3: 30 p. m. CDT, the first thunderstorm of the outbreak began forming in Tillman County in southwestern Oklahoma ; a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for this storm by the NWS Norman Weather Forecast Office at 4: 15 p. m. CDT.

The Storm Prediction Center began in 1952 in Washington, D. C. as SELS ( Severe Local Storms Unit ), a special unit of forecasters in the Weather Bureau.

In 1998, the Center began issuing the National Fire Weather Outlook.

Weather delayed the attack, which began on 22 September.

As soon as he started " Couldn't Stand the Weather ", these huge clouds rolled in overhead, and rain began pouring down.

In October 2008, after a ten year partnership with The Weather Channel to provide the station's weather forecasts, the station began to air forecasts prepared by Tom Skilling and other members of WGN-TV's weather staff.

The Monthly Weather Review began as a government publication under the United States Army Signal Corps.

On 7 November 1953 the USAF 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron began operating from the base flying initially the WB-29 then WB-50D Superfortress, having been transferred from Kindley Field, Bermuda.

In May 2006, WHDH began offering NBC Weather Plus, which aired on digital subchannel 7. 2 until NBC discontinued the channel at the end of 2008.

In 1978, he began working at the BBC Weather Centre.

Weather decks in western designs evolved from having structures fore and aft ( forward or front and aft or The Rear of the ship mostly clear, then in the 19th century pilothouses / wheelhouses and deckhouses began to appear, eventually developing into the superstructure of modern ships.

The two observations confirmed the presence of a closed atmospheric circulation, located about 70 miles ( 110 km ) southeast of San Andres, or 155 mi ( 250 km ) east of the Nicaragua coast ; as a result, the Miami, Florida Weather Bureau office began issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Hattie.

When the Miami Weather Bureau first began issuing advisories on Hattie, the agency noted the potential for heavy rainfall in the southwestern Caribbean, which could potentially cause flash flooding.