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Aristotle dies in Chalcis
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Aristotle writes meteorolgy
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Edmond Hally is born in Haggerston
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Edmund Halley presents a systematic study of the trade winds and monsoons and identifies solar heating as the cause of atmospheric motions
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Gabriel Farenheit is born in Gdansk
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Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala.
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Gabriel Farenheit makes a good scale for measuring temperature using a mercury type thermometer.
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Gabriel Farenheit dies in The Hague.
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Edmund Halley dies in Greenwich.
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Anders Celsius proposes the centigrade scale.
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Anders Celsius dies in Uppsala.
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Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was born in Rugby.
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500 U.S. telegraph stations start making weather predictions and sending them to the Smithsonian.
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Joseph Lockyer starts the scientific journal Nature.
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The Weather Bureau starts as a civilian operation of the U.S department of agriculture.
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The Weather Bureau locates a hurricane warning network in the West Indies
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A hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing 6,000 people.
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Joseph Lockyer dies in Salcombe Regis.
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Ted Fujita is born in Kitakyushu.
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The “Tri-State” tornado hits Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana killing 695 people.
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The dust bowl drought rages in the U.S plains and causes massive economic problems.
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The “Great Labor Day Hurricane” kills 405 people and is made the most intense category 5 Atlantic hurricane ever to make landfall.
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Army Air Force Weather Service was made.
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Hurricanes begin to be named in alphabetical order.
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The National Hurricane Center creates a way to name the hurricanes by women names.
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The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale created to categorize hurricanes from 1-5.
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Hurricane Camille the second Category 5 caused the U.S government to pay 1.4 billion in damage.
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Ted Fujita introduces the Fujita scale for rating tornados.
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The first GEOS were launched into space to aid in hurricane tracking.
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Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington State.
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WSR-88D first weather radar to detect severe weather.
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Ted Fujita dies in Chicago.
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Aristotle is born in Stageira
