TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lockett,Jerry
TI  - The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the Tumultuous Birth of Weather Forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869
SN  - 9781459500808
AV  - QC995 .L62 2012
U1  - 551.6309 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Halifax, N.S.
PB  - Formac Pub.
KW  - Saxby, Stephen,
KW  - Weather forecasting
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Meteorologists
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - Windstorms
KW  - Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Atlantic Coast (Canada)
KW  - Canada
KW  - Atlantic Coast
KW  - fast
KW  - United States
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Mr. Saxby's prediction -- The calm before the storm -- A storm of ideas -- Storm warnings -- Barking at the moon -- pt. 2. The storm -- Deluge -- Landfall -- Storm surge -- Aftermath -- Why Saxby still matters; Issued also in electronic formats
N2  - In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers and other charlatans for public acceptance. One of the voices in this struggle was Stephen Saxby, a British naval instructor who thought he had found a sure-fire way of forecasting storms. He championed a popular but somewhat eccentric theory that weather disturbances are linked to stages in the moon's orbit of the earth. In this book, the author traces the early days of weather forecasting, the background to Saxby's prediction, and the drama of the storm itself
ER  -