Meteorology comes from the Greek word meaning "description of what happens in air."
Aristotle was the first to write about weather some 2000 years ago!
A hygrometer is an instrument that measures humidity. It was first invented by Leonardo DaVinci around 1500.
The barometer was invented in 1644 by Evangelista Torricelli (he was an assistant to Galileo.)
The thermometer was invented in 1714 by Gabriel Daniel Farenheit - the scale we use to measure temperature is named after him.
Weather Forecasting - a Norweigan team headed by Vilhelm Bjerknes showed how fronts form between masses of air at different temperatures and how raindrops grow in 1920.
© S. Olesik, WOW Project, Ohio State University, 2002.
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