Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Additional Commentary
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Seeds Are Sown
- 2 Statistics and Storms
- 3 Inquiry and Criticism
- 4 The Fight over Forecasts
- 5 Squalls and Settled Spells
- 6 The Emergence of Science
- 7 A Decade of Change
- 8 The Great War
- 9 The Inter-War Period
- 10 The Clouds of War
- 11 Aftermath of War to Forecasting by Numbers
- 12 Global Meteorology
- 13 Winds of Change
- Index
- References
5 - Squalls and Settled Spells
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Additional Commentary
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Seeds Are Sown
- 2 Statistics and Storms
- 3 Inquiry and Criticism
- 4 The Fight over Forecasts
- 5 Squalls and Settled Spells
- 6 The Emergence of Science
- 7 A Decade of Change
- 8 The Great War
- 9 The Inter-War Period
- 10 The Clouds of War
- 11 Aftermath of War to Forecasting by Numbers
- 12 Global Meteorology
- 13 Winds of Change
- Index
- References
Summary
With the resumption of a storm-warning service more or less as FitzRoy conceived it and the reintroduction of daily weather forecasts for the public, the fight over forecasts was won. Never again in peacetime would the Meteorological Office withdraw these services. The fight over forecasts was not, however, the only important development in the Office in the years after the Royal Society took charge. A threat to Kew Observatory had to be addressed, too.
Changes in the Role of Kew Observatory
For as long as the British Association had managed Kew Observatory (since 1842), the cost of sponsoring and maintaining the Observatory's work had proved a drain on the Association's finances. The Association's Council decided in 1869 that the time had come to discontinue the Observatory's financial support. Money would be provided for a further two years, and the connection between the Association and Kew would then cease.
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- History of the Meteorological Office , pp. 102 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011