Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869
by
Jerry Lockett
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters...