History Of Weather Forecasting

• Almanacs connected the weather with the positions of different  at particular times.

The invention of weather instruments

• A hydrometer showed Levels of (Nicholas Cusa 1450)

• Temperature variations – first measured by a thermometer containing  (Galileo Galilei 1595)

• A barometer indicated air pressure (Evangelista Torricelli 1645)

Transmitting weather information

• The use of the  allowed information to be passed around the world.

• Daily  were produced by the French from 1863.