I am an amateur radio operator and looking into the history of it, you quickly run into the telegraph, and telegraph operators would talk about things like the

I am an amateur radio operator and looking into the history of it, you quickly run into the telegraph, and telegraph operators would talk about things like the weather. It didn't take long before they realized that the weather in a place 100 miles away could show up the next day. Then they would warn everyone around them if bad weather was coming.