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9780750932158

Storm Warning : The Origins of the Weather Forecast

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750932158

  • ISBN10:

    0750932155

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-01-30
  • Publisher: Trafalgar Square

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Summary

The tale of the emergence of forecasting from mythology, through the weather glass and into meteorology is a story fraught with conflict between scientists and seers; it involves the riding of storms; the scouring of the wide oceans in small sailing ships and soaring to the sky in balloons. This book traces the story of man's attempts to foretell the coming weather, and shows how weather prediction emerged from the realms of the seer and charlatan into credible acceptability.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
Principal Characters xiii
Prologue 1(6)
Myths to Meteorology
7(13)
Weather Watchers
20(13)
Storm about Storms
33(13)
Charting the Winds
46(8)
Nations Confer
54(14)
Who will be the Weatherman?
68(6)
Surveying the Seas
74(14)
The Birth of the Met Office
88(13)
Simultaneous Observations
101(17)
The FitzRoy Barometer
118(7)
Sun and Wind
125(11)
Atmospheric Gyration
136(8)
Royal Charter Storm
144(8)
Storm Prediction
152(14)
Forecast
166(11)
Meteorographica
177(12)
Burden of Proof
189(10)
The French Connection
199(13)
Forecasting the End
212(18)
Rebirth
230(17)
A New Dimension
247(12)
Notes 259(15)
Bibliography 274(4)
Index 278

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