The birth of the weather forecast
Admiral Robert FitzRoy took his life 150 years ago. He gave the world the weather forecast. The man who invented the weather forecast in the 1860s faced scepticism and even mockery. But science was on his side, writes Peter Moore. One hundred and fifty years ago Admiral Robert FitzRoy, the celebrated sailor and founder of the Met Office, took his own life. One newspaper reported the news of his death as a "sudden and shocking catastrophe".
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