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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Happy Birthday Weather Forecasts ....
On 1 August 1861 the Times newspaper published the first ever weather forecast.
The forecast was put together by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who led the meteorological department in the Board of Trade which was later renamed the Met Office.
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BTW, Robert FitzRoy is also famous for commanding the second voyage of the HMS Beagle in 1831 and selecting a young Charles Darwin to accompany the expedition as a naturalist.