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Weather History

By JamesGreen199
  • Apr 5, 1350

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Aristotle writes meteorology
  • Apr 3, 1525

    Pomponius Mela

    Pomponius Mela
    Makes and formalizes the climatic zone system

  • Francis Bacon

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

    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

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

  • Anders Celsius

    Anders Celsius
    A Swedish astonomer, proposed the centigrade scale for themometers

  • Elias Loomis

    Elias Loomis
    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.

    U.S.
    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

    Joseph Lockyer
    Starts the scientific journal nature

  • Weather Bureau

    Weather Bureau
    Established a hurricane warning network in the West Indies.
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    Dust Bowl

    Drought in the US plain region causes harsh economic damage

  • AWS

    AWS
    Army Weather Service is established

  • WMO

    WMO
    World meteorological organization is established

  • NSSP

    NSSP
    Nationol Severe Storms Project is established

  • NOAA

    NOAA
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is established

  • GEOS

    GEOS
    Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched into orbit