Predict The WeatherBy Anastasia KusterbeckBelieve it or not, at one time people thought that weather occurred in only one place and simply stayed put. (Benjamin Franklin first suspected this was untrue when he learned that a storm he experienced in Philadelphia was followed by a suspiciously similar one in Boston the next night.) In those days, predictions were based on the observations of courageous balloonists who went aloft in search of approaching storms. More often than not, these airborne oracles almost passed out from lack of oxygen.Source |