{"id":43240,"date":"2016-01-18T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=43240"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:21:30","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-do-boston-buildings-know-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-do-boston-buildings-know-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Do Buildings Know the Weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Superstar<\/a><\/p>\n

Some\u00a0of them sure do. Take, for example, Boston’s Berkeley Building<\/a> (also known as the Old John Hancock Building). Back in 1950, the Back Bay-area building was outfitted with a weather beacon<\/a> so Bostonians could simply look up for a quick forecast. The beacon flashed both blue and red and was kept lit until 1973 when it was shut off to set an example<\/a> during the energy crisis<\/a>\u00a0of that year. It was re-lit in 1983 and continues to display the weather for all who can crack the code. An easy way to remember the flashing signals: \u201cSteady blue, clear view\/Flashing blue, clouds due\/Steady red, rain ahead\/Flashing red, snow instead.\u201d However, during the baseball season, flashing red spells something much more serious: The Red Sox game has been called off on account of weather.<\/a> Oh, the horror!<\/p>\n

The Northwestern Bank building in downtown Minneapolis was equally weather-savvy in its day. For 33 years – from 1949 until a fire destroyed the building in 1982 – the iconic Weather Ball <\/a>perched atop it signaled the forecast to Minneapolitans up to 15 miles away, who decoded it via its own\u00a0jingle. In 2013, a new, admittedly much less spectacular, rooftop “Weather Watcher<\/a>” debuted not far from the original’s location.<\/p>\n

A number of U.S. cities have had, or still have, weather balls and beacons<\/a>. They’re quaint – unless you\u00a0perceive them as forerunners of the super-smart buildings of the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Superstar<\/a> |\u00a0$80.00 – 170.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of them sure do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":43255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43240"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44243,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions\/44243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}