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Aristotle writes meteorology
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Makes and formalizes the climatic zone system
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Francis Bacon analyzes the scientific method in his Great Instauration of Learning.
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Presents a systematic study of the trade winds and monsoons and identifies solar heating as the cause of atmospheric motions and establishes the relationship between barometric pressure and height above sea level and in 1716 he suggest that aurorae are caused by "magnetic effluvia" moving along the earths magnetic field lines
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Creates reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer
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A Swedish astonomer, proposed the centigrade scale for themometers
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Had an experiment to gain in sight into the wind speed needed to defeather a chicken. He loaded a cann with gun powder and a chicken
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500 U.S. telegraph stations are making weather observations and submitting them back to the Smithsonian Institution. The observations are later interrupted by the Civil War.
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Starts the scientific journal nature
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Established a hurricane warning network in the West Indies.
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Drought in the US plain region causes harsh economic damage
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Army Weather Service is established
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World meteorological organization is established
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Nationol Severe Storms Project is established
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is established
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Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched into orbit
