Because it was originally placed under the direction of the War Department, the full extent of the Service's activities was to place military personnel at stations throughout the country and reporting back to Washington, D.C. with the results (Bradford, 2001)
DaVinci was also the first person to design a workable weathervane to measure wind direction. The famous physicist, Galileo, made his contribution to meteorology around 1593 with his experiments with gases and liquids (Doak, 2005)
Thales, his contemporaries and those following him made very few contributions to the study of meteorology but their interest did spark further inquiry. The first serious inquiry into the study of meteorology was done by the philosopher Aristotle (Frisinger, 1973)
His prediction that daily forecasts would become a part of our culture did not occur until well into the twentieth century but, even in the 18th century, he was able to see the possibilities. Publications like the "Farmer's Almanac" attempted to do what Lavoisier predicted but a true scientific approach did not emerge until modern times (Geiger, 1818)
This discovery and the wool used by DeCusa was the first crude example of a meteorological instrument. A few years later, a German mathematician, Leon Alberti, published the results of a finding where he argued that the moisture in the air could be measured by comparing the weight of a dry sponge before and after being exposed to the air (Jacobson, 2005)
Thermodynamics, which involve the study of the energy exchanged between physical systems such as heat or work, had been studied for some time but it was not until the late nineteenth century that the results were applied to meteorology. Scientists involved in the field of thermodynamics such as Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes contributed formulas that had applications that could be used to forecast changes in weather conditions and meteorologists quickly grasped the opportunity (Lewis, 2007)
As an outgrowth of these efforts attempts were then made to explain the occurrence of certain weather phenomena. During this time the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier may have become the first weatherman when he stated: "It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to society (Poirier, 1996)
Publications like the "Farmer's Almanac" attempted to do what Lavoisier predicted but a true scientific approach did not emerge until modern times (Geiger, 1818). World wide concern for weather forecasting was initiated because of the severe damage that was suffered by the French fleet during the Crimean War (1853-56) (Royle, 2000)
By being provided with this information forecasters are able to predict with far more certainty the severity of storms. Satellite technology has also proven to be a valuable part of the modern meteorologist's forecasting tools (Stanley Q. Kidder, 1995)
Thus planes crash into mountains on account of this error. (Ahrens; Samson, 2010) Added to that if the visibility is poor, there is a chance that the pilot not only erroneously estimates the altitude, but also has to fly blind, lower and lower than the actual flight path
The convergence of air upward in the cyclone causes cloud formation and rain while the movement of air from the top to the earth in an anticyclone causes no cloud to be formed and is like a dome of clear dry air. (Strahler; Strahler, 2007) The reason for a plane crash therefore lies in this meteorological fact