The First Daily Weather Forecast

The first ever weather forecasts began in 1860 when Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who was once Darwin’s captain on the HMS Beagle, was concerned by the deaths at sea caused by unforeseen storms. He began by using the electric telegraph to pre-warn coastal outposts and later published his analysis of the atmosphere in The Times across Britain in 1861.

Image: first daily weather forecast. Source: The Times 08/01/1861