Weather Forecasting | Weather forecasting before computers
Weather forecasting before computers
The first weather forecasting guide was written about 2,000 years ago. A Greek naturalist named Theophrastus wrote the Book of Signs, a collection of 200 natural signs that indicated the type of weather that was on its way. In 1687, John Tulley of Saybrook, Connecticut, published a farmers' almanac that included the first weather forecast made in the United States. In 1792, Robert Bailey Thomas of West Boyleston, Massachusetts, began writing an annual almanac, which he eventually called The Old Farmer's Almanac. Along with humorous stories, Thomas offered some of the nation's earliest long-range weather forecasts.
Instruments such as the weathervane, which indicates wind direction, were used at least 2,000 years ago in Athens, Greece. In the seventeenth century, more precise weather instruments emerged that could indicate humidity, temperature, and barometric...
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