Weather Forecasting
Weather Forecasting
In researching this project I was amazed to find the many books on this
topic. After going through much information and reading an enormous amount of
writing on weather forecasting I can only come to one conclusion that when all
is considered the best forecasters can only give an educated guess of what is in
store for weather. Through the many means at their disposal, such as satellites,
ships at the ocean, infrared, radio, and radar transmissions even with all of
these techniques no prediction is 100% accurate.
One question that I asked myself was "when was the first weather
forecasting ever done?", I found out that in 1863 in Britain there was a united
forecasting system headed by Captain Robert Fitzroy. Captain Fitzroy would send
ships around Britain to warn people of storms and such. However, he was often
wrong and criticized and therefor committed suicide. Since then there have been
many other services, but the largest one currently is the National......
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