10 Interesting Fact About The history of meteorology

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• Meteorology comes from the Greek meteoron which means atmospheric phenomena such as clouds, rain, and snow, as well as logia which means study or science.
• In ancient times, Egyptians and Greece have recorded weather patterns and natural phenomena such as eclipses and earthquakes.
• In ancient China, scientists have recorded the weather and natural phenomena since about 3,000 years ago.
• In the 17th century, British scientist Robert Hooke discovered that air has a weight and can affect the weather.
• In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin introduced weather gauges such as barometers and thermometers.
• In the 19th century, French scientist Louis Pasteur discovered that bacteria can survive in the air and affect human health.
• At the beginning of the 20th century, Norwegian scientists Vilhelm Bjerknes developed a mathematical model to predict the weather.
• In the 1920s, American scientist Edward Lorenz discovered the effect of butterflies, where small changes in initial conditions could affect major changes in the weather system.
• In the 1950s, American scientist Joanne Simpson became the first woman to get a doctorate in meteorology and lead the weather research mission on airplanes.
• In the 1980s, American scientist James Hansen warned about the effects of the greenhouse and global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, which became the main concern in the study of modern meteorology.