Predicting the Weather

Predicting the Weather
Author: Katharine Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226019680

The Met Office was founded in 1854 to collect weather statistics, but it quickly turned to daily forecasting, opening its work to popular scrutiny. Katharine Anderson discusses both the science of meteorology and the public expectations that shaped it in the Victorian era.