This pulled me down a rabbit hole of ‘so, when *did* weather forecasting as a scientific and publicly disseminated work product start?’ and the answer seems to be ‘mid 19th century with the invention and deployment of the telegraph and the ability to coordinate observations over large distances’. And the National Weather Service being founded in 1890. https://www.weather.gov/timeline
(The invention of ‘Traffic and Weather Together on the Eights’ would have to wait until after the invention of traffic a generation later)Report
This pulled me down a rabbit hole of ‘so, when *did* weather forecasting as a scientific and publicly disseminated work product start?’ and the answer seems to be ‘mid 19th century with the invention and deployment of the telegraph and the ability to coordinate observations over large distances’. And the National Weather Service being founded in 1890.
https://www.weather.gov/timeline
(The invention of ‘Traffic and Weather Together on the Eights’ would have to wait until after the invention of traffic a generation later)Report