In the 1740 s, Ben Franklin proposed that storms move from place to place. In 1768, John Heinrich Lambert developed the hygrometer. In 1830, William Redfield, a Connecticut peddler discovered the circular path of a hurricane. He noticed that after a hurricane, trees in eastern Connecticut fell in one direction, while those in the western part of the state fell in the other direction. In 1918, Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jacob discovered that many weather phenomena result from the meeting and interaction of warm and cold air masses.
Weather makes headlines all the time.
The weather is always doing something said Mark Twain-always coming up with new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. At the beginning of the 17th century, the colonists had little information about our weather. Many myths controlled the location of settlements. A common complaint by the colonists was that there were six months of winter over here. Eventually, the colonists started keeping track of the weather.