Patent US 4,480,253

A miniature radio receiver for receiving coded radio transmissions pertaining to the actual or predicted state of the weather and storing the information in a memory from which information can be read out on command. In one embodiment, the radio is small enough to be attached to the wrist and has a display face on which information pertaining to the weather is presented. In another embodiment, the receiver is provided with a voice synthesizer which responds to a read out command by audibly announcing the weather information stored in the memory.