Weather History

Aristotle

Apr 5, 1350

Aristotle writes meteorology

Pomponius Mela

Apr 3, 1525

Makes and formalizes the climatic zone system

Francis Bacon

Apr 3, 1620

Francis Bacon analyzes the scientific method in his Great Instauration of Learning.

Edmund Halley

Period: Apr 4, 1686 to Apr 4, 1716

Presents a systematic study of the trade winds and monsoons and identifies solar heating as the cause of atmospheric motions and establishes the relationship between barometric pressure and height above sea level and in 1716 he suggest that aurorae are caused by "magnetic effluvia" moving along the earths magnetic field lines

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Apr 3, 1714

Creates reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer

Anders Celsius

Apr 4, 1742

A Swedish astonomer, proposed the centigrade scale for themometers

Elias Loomis

Apr 4, 1842

Had an experiment to gain in sight into the wind speed needed to defeather a chicken. He loaded a cann with gun powder and a chicken

U.S.

Apr 4, 1860

500 U.S. telegraph stations are making weather observations and submitting them back to the Smithsonian Institution. The observations are later interrupted by the Civil War.

Joseph Lockyer

Apr 4, 1869

Starts the scientific journal nature

Weather Bureau

Apr 5, 1898

Established a hurricane warning network in the West Indies.

Dust Bowl

Period: Apr 5, 1934 to Apr 5, 1937

Drought in the US plain region causes harsh economic damage

AWS

Apr 5, 1937

Army Weather Service is established

WMO

Apr 5, 1951

World meteorological organization is established

NSSP

Apr 5, 1955

Nationol Severe Storms Project is established

NOAA

Apr 5, 1970

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is established

GEOS

Apr 5, 2012

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched into orbit