Tornadoes and Weather Forecasting
In writing this essay, I was more amazed with the forecasting of weather than I was of actual tornadoes. Excuse me if I run off of subject, but the things I found on predicting storms, and of course, tornadoes, were overwhelming. After going through much information and reading an abundance of articles on weather forecasting, I can only come to one conclusion. That when all is considered the best forecasters can only give an educated guess of what is in store for weather and when tornadoes will come. Through the many means at their disposal, such as satellites, ships at the ocean, infrared, radio, and radar transmissions even with all of these techniques no prediction is 100% accurate. One question that I asked myself was "when was the first weather forecasting ever done?", I found out that in 1863 in Britain there was a united forecasting system headed by Captain Robert Fitzroy. Captain Fitzroy would send ships around Britain to warn people of tornadoes storms and such. However, he was often wrong and criticized and therefore, committed suicide. Since then there have been many other services, but the largest one currently is the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service gives predictions for the enti
Recently there have been many local-forecasting stations popping up all over the world, a big difference from the once exclusive N.W.S. (national weather service). Lately most towns now have non-governmental forecasting stations, which provide weather information for the suburban locations and areas such as ski resorts, and holiday vacation spots, one thing the N.W.S. does not do. Of course all of these inventions have proven helpful for forecasting weather, there was still one problem. The main problem was communicating. The reason for this was that if the forecasters were to send letters to each other every time there was a storm, their counterparts would not learn of a storm or tornado for days! The solution to this problem began with the invention of the telegraph. There are many different materials and devices used by local and government services to predict the weather. Some of these devices are, radars, which is actually sound waves, which bounce off clouds and give location of storms this way. The next breakthrough in forecasting was the satellite. A satellite would be launched from Earth and then would take video and photos of the world and send back to Earth the footage, thereby being able to show storms coming from the ocean just at the first stages. In Closing I can only surmise that much research been done on predicting weather accurately, more the less tornadoes, millions of dollars have been spent, on satellites, radar, and weather bureaus. Tornadoes are very dangerous and take many lives each year, but with the help of new technologies, forecasting may soon be a more accurate way of predicting these viole
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