# First Weather Map - March 31, 1875 **URL:** \ **Category:** Marine Weather\ **Created:** [September 24, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/first-weather-map-march-31-1875/67196 "2023-09-24T11:33:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/first-weather-map-march-31-1875/67196/1 "2023-09-24T11:33:13Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/6/6/66012fdb90b3ed58ebf5e817fbe6e5f01f47b34b.png) [Francis Galton as Meteorologist](https://galton.org/meteorologist.html) Galton’s Wikipedia page: > **[Francis Galton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton)** > > Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath in the Victorian era. He was a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics, and scientific racism. Galton was knighted in 1909. > Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also developed the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduc... I was surprised how closely that map resembles current ones. It was published in the Times of London. The paper had started to publish weather forecast 14 years before that to much ridicule according to to this Guardian article. > **[How the modern weather map was born](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/25/modern-weather-map-newspaper-weatherwatch#:)** > > Weatherwatch Francis Galton’s synoptic chart described conditions of the previous day and sidestepped the pitfalls of prediction ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/first-weather-map-march-31-1875/67196/2 "2023-09-24T13:51:06Z")
It appears there are several claims to have been the “Father of modern Meteorology”. In 350 BC, Aristotle wrote Meteorology. Aristotle is considered the founder of meteorology. One of the most impressive achievements described in the Meteorology is the description of what is now known as the hydrologic cycle Luke Howard has been called “the father of meteorology" because of his comprehensive recordings of weather in the London area from 1801 to 1841 and his writings, which transformed the science of meteorology. He named the various cloud formations: > **[Weather Brains: Luke Howard (1772-1864) | weatheronline.co.uk](https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/weatherbrains/Luke-Howard.htm)** > > Luke Howard was born November 28th, 1772 in London. Howard was never a trained meteorologist or scientist, but he was a real weather enthusiast with a I say Admiral Robert FitzRoy, the captain aboard Darwin’s HMS Beagle, deserve the title. One hundred and sixty years ago he discovered that it was possible to forecast the weather: > **[The Tragic History of the Father of Meteorology](https://www.faena.com/aleph/the-tragic-history-of-the-father-of-meteorology)** > > Admiral Robert FitzRoy enjoyed (and suffered from) a sensitivity sufficiently intense to found climate science. Vilhelm Bjerknes is considered by many to be the founders of modern meteorology and weather forecasting, based on mathematical formulas: > **[Pioneers in modern meteorology and climate research](https://bjerknes.uib.no/en/article/news/pioneers-modern-meteorology-and-climate-research)** > > More than hundred years ago, Vilhelm Bjerknes' mathematical approach to meteorology led to the beginnings of numerical weather prediction.