[BITList] The birth of the weather forecast - BBC News

[Michael Feltham]

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> The birth of the weather forecast
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> FitzRoy's weather forecasts were taken up by Derby race-goers
> The man who invented the weather forecast in the 1860s faced scepticism and even mockery. But science was on his side, writes Peter Moore.
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