- 350BC – Aristotle wrote Meteorology.
- 25 – Pomponius Mela formalizes the climatic zone system.
- 1620 – Francis Bacon analyzes the scientific method in his Great
Instauration of Learning. - 1686 – Edmund Halley presents a systematic study of the trade winds and
monsoons and identifies solar heating as the cause of atmospheric
motions. - 1686 – Edmund Halley establishes the relationship between barometric
pressure and height above sea level. - 1714 – G. D. Fahrenheit creates reliable scale for measuring
temperature with a mercury-type thermometer - 1716 – Edmund Halley suggests that aurorae are caused by “magnetic
effluvia” moving along the Earth’s magnetic field lines. - 1742 – Anders Celsius, a swedish astronomer, proposed the centigrade
scale for thermometers. - 1842 – Elias Loomis performed an experiment to gain insight into the
wind speed needed to defeather a chicken. He loaded a cannon with gun
powder and a chicken. - 1860 – 500 US telegraph stations are making weather observations and
submitting them back to the Smithsonian Institute. The observations are
later interupted by the Civil War. - 1869 – Joseph Lockyer starts the scientific journal Nature.
- 1890 – Weather Bureau is created as a civilian operation under the
Department of Agriculture. - 1898 – Weather Bureau established a hurricane warning network in the
West Indies. - 1900 – Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas, killing over 6,000 people.
- 1920 – Milutin Milankovich proposes that long term climatic cycles may
be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit and changes
in the Earth’s obliquity. - 1925 – “Tri-State” tornado runs through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana
killing 695 people. - 1935 – Watson-Watt and his assistant Arnold Wilkins published a report
in February 1935, titled The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods. - 1935 – The “Great Labor Day Hurricane” kills 408 people. It is rated as
the most intense Cat5 Atlantic hurricane to make landfall. - 1934 to 1937 – The Dust Bowl drought of the US plains region causes
harsh economic damage. - 1937 – Army Air Forces Weather Service was established (redesignated in
1946 as AWS-Air Weather Service). - 1941 – Pulsed radar network is implemented in England during WWII.
- 1948 – First correct tornado prediction by R. C. Miller and E. J.
Fawbush. - 1950 – Hurricanes begin to be named alphabetically with the radio
alphabet. - 1951 – WMO World Meteorological Organization established by the United
Nations. - 1953 – National Hurricane Center creates a system for naming hurricanes
using alphabetical lists of women’s names. - 1955 – NSSP National Severe Storms Project established.
- 1956 – The Weather Bureau creates the National Hurricane Research
Project. - 1969 – Hurricane Camille, the second Cat5 hurricane to make US landfall
causes $1.4 billion in damage. - 1970 – NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
established. Weather Bureau is renamed the National Weather Service. - 1971 – Ted Fujita inroduces the Fujita scale for rating tornadoes.
- 1975 – The first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite,
GEOS, was launched into orbit. Their role and design is to aid in
hurricane tracking. - 1980 – Mt. St. Helens erupts in Washington State.
- 1988 – WSR-88D type weather radar implemented in the United States.
Weather surveillance radar that uses several modes to detect severe
weather conditions.
Timeline of Meteorology
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