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