The History Of Weather Forecasting

Ancient cultures

• many societies linked floods and other disasters with accounts of how the world began

• many communities performed ceremonial 1.  to gain the favour of weather gods
• people had to read the sky correctly since their 2.  relied on it
• around 650 BC, Babylonian forecasts used natural signs, including 3. 
• by 300 BC, the Chinese calendar connected weather patterns with 24 annual 4. 

Ancient Greeks

• they introduced a more scientific way of explaining weather

• Aristotle attempted to account for how several weather phenomena formed

• he wrote about haloes and also about 5. 

Middle Ages

• Aristotle remained the principal authority on weather

• sayings about the colour of the 6.  often preserved dependable observations

15th–19th centuries

• in the fifteenth century, scientists first recognised the importance of 7. 
• Galileo developed the first 8. 

• Pascal demonstrated the connection between atmospheric pressure and altitude

• from the seventeenth century, pressure and temperature could both be measured

• in the eighteenth century, Franklin identified the direction in which 9.  usually travel
• in the nineteenth century, records from distant places could be combined by using the 10.