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Happy birthday weather forecasts!

  • 01-08-2011 8:47am
    #1
    tylercollins
    Registered Users Posts: 845 ✭✭✭


    On 1 August 1861 the Times newspaper published the first ever weather forecast.


    The forecast was put together by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who led the meteorological department in the Board of Trade which was later renamed the Met Office.


    John Hammond and Rob Varley of the Met Office told Graham Satchell about the history of a famously difficult art.



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14361204


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  • #2
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    tylercollins wrote: »
    On 1 August 1861 the Times newspaper published the first ever weather forecast.


    The forecast was put together by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who led the meteorological department in the Board of Trade which was later renamed the Met Office.


    John Hammond and Rob Varley of the Met Office told Graham Satchell about the history of a famously difficult art.



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14361204

    Nice timeline from the UK Met Office here also: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/our-history/timeline


  • #3
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    Ironic isn't it that on the anniversary of the first public weather forecast there are no BBC weather forecasts today because of a lightning strike (excuse the pun! :D) by the NUJ


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