On whether you care

For people focused on the weather yet tired of the mass media sensationalism…

That is to say, if you desire a frequent, thoughtful, and scientific approach to weather*, Cliff Mass fits the bill.

*Trained in philosophy, professionally employed as an analyst, and as an everyday cyclist (outside a lot) I consider myself one of these.

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/07/cold-truth.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting
It was not until the invention of the electric telegraph in 1835 that the modern age of weather forecasting began.[8] Before this time, it was not widely practicable to transport information about the current state of the weather any faster than a steam train (and the train also was a very new technology at that time). By the late 1840s, the telegraph allowed reports of weather conditions from a wide area to be received almost instantaneously,[9] allowing forecasts to be made from knowledge of weather conditions further upwind. The two men most credited with the birth of forecasting as a science were Francis Beaufort (remembered chiefly for the Beaufort scale) and his protégé Robert Fitzroy (developer of the Fitzroy barometer). Both were influential men in British naval and governmental circles, and though ridiculed in the press at the time, their work gained scientific credence, was accepted by the Royal Navy, and formed the basis for all of today’s weather forecasting knowledge.[10] To convey information accurately, it became necessary to have a standard vocabulary describing clouds; this was achieved by means of a series of classifications and, in the 1890s, by pictorial cloud atlases.
Great progress was made in the science of meteorology during the 20th century. The possibility of numerical weather prediction was proposed by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1922,[11] though computers did not exist to complete the vast number of calculations required to produce a forecast before the event had occurred. Practical use of numerical weather prediction began in 1955,[12] spurred by the development of programmable electronic computers.
In the United States, the first public radio forecasts were made in 1925 by Edward B. “E.B.” Rideout, on WEEI, the Edison Electric Illuminating station in Boston.[13] Rideout came from the U.S. Weather Bureau, as did WBZ weather forecaster G. Harold Noyes in 1931. Television forecasts followed with Jimmie Fidler in Cincinnati in 1940 or 1947 on the DuMont Television Network.[13][14] The Weather Channel is a 24-hour cable network that began broadcasting in May 1982.
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