Weather forecasting G. Harold Noyes in 1931. The world's first televised weather forecasts, including the use of weather maps, were experimentally broadcast by the BBC in 1936. This was brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. George Cowling gave the first weather forecast while being televised in front of the map in 1954. In America, experimental television forecasts were made by James C Fidler in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947 on the DuMont Television Network. In the late 1970s and early 80s, John Coleman, the first weatherman on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, pioneered the use of on-screen weather satellite
Alfred Hozack Cowling Alfred Hozack Cowling Alfred Hozack "Alf" Cowling (October 15, 1911 – November 18, 1996) was a Canadian politician, who represented High Park in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1971 as a Progressive Conservative member. Cowling was born in Toronto. He was one of three sons born to Eleanor May Hozack and Alfred Homer Cowling. He worked as an insurance salesman and, eventually became an executive at an insurance company in Toronto. Cowling was married to Jessie Elizabeth "Betty" Morris (1916-2008) and they had one son named William. Cowling is buried in Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto. His