Whether you are packing for a trip or just wondering whether you will need an umbrella to get to work the next day, most of us care a lot about what the weather forecasters are saying is in store for us. While the accuracy of their forecasts has certainly improved over the years, there’s no guarantee we will get the weather they tell us. Nonetheless, there is still satisfaction in feeling “prepared.”
I’ve been working on my notes for a class I’m teaching at the Osher Institute at UCLA starting on Tuesday so I have been re-reading some of the posts I have written in the past. Today I thought I would direct you to one that I wrote about the beginning of the Weather Service. There were many steps involved in getting us where we are today! “How the U.S. Weather Service Began.“