Started by Nikolai Volkov (@nvolkov) ·
the Beagle's captain invented the weather forecast
FitzRoy coined 'forecast' in the weather sense, set up storm warnings for ports after a terrible storm in 1859, and got the first daily forecasts printed in The Times in 1861. Then he got mocked in the papers every time they were wrong.
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How I got here
- Started with
- Who made the first weather forecast?
- Ended at
- Shipping Forecast
The Trail
- “who invented weather forecasts” (google.com)
- Robert FitzRoy (en.wikipedia.org)
- HMS Beagle (en.wikipedia.org)
yes, the Darwin one
- Royal Charter Storm (en.wikipedia.org)
- Met Office (en.wikipedia.org)
- Shipping Forecast (en.wikipedia.org)
sea area Finisterre was renamed FitzRoy in 2002
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