{"id":2910,"date":"2015-05-02T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2015-05-02T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:15:06","slug":"the-birth-of-the-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/the-birth-of-the-weather-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of the weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a history buff, you will enjoy reading about the first official weather forecast, made by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, a well-known mariner who also happened to be the captain of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin&#8217;s ship of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The key to FitzRoy&#8217;s ability to forecast was the development of the telegraph, which allowed him to collect weather data from far away and put it into a coherent picture that made the forecast possible. \u00a0You can read the story in BBC Magazine at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bb.c.com\/news\/magazine-32483678\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bb.c.com\/news\/magazine-32483678<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FitzRoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2911\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FitzRoy-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FitzRoy-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FitzRoy.jpg 616w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FitzRoy-83x138.jpg 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a history buff, you will enjoy reading about the first official weather forecast, made by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, a well-known mariner who also happened to be the captain of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin&#8217;s ship of discovery. The key to FitzRoy&#8217;s ability to forecast was the development of the telegraph, which allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}