In 1831, the British Royal Navy charged a 26-year-old officer named Robert FitzRoy with the difficult but vital task of charting coastlines around South America, the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean ...
People have been talking about the weather since time immemorial, but it wasn’t until August 1, 1861 that someone finally decided to put his daily predictions into writing. And here’s the really crazy ...
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163 years ago, the first weather forecast appeared. Why its author committed suicide despite success
On August 1, 1861, the British newspaper The Times published the first daily weather forecast in history. It was compiled by Robert FitzRoy, a captain of the British fleet who had previously made a ...
It’s easy to make a storm glass – just mix the chemicals and watch crystals form and disappear. But there might be a scientific basis to its supposed powers FOR 19th-century mariners, forecasting the ...
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