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Isaac Cline as a young man. Isaac Monroe Cline (October 13, 1861 – August 3, 1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas, office of the U.S. Weather Bureau, now known as the National Weather Service, from 1889 to 1901.
Harold Earnest Taft Jr. (September 5, 1922 – September 27, 1991), affectionately known as "The World's Greatest Weatherman" and "The Dean of TV Meteorologists", was the first television meteorologist west of the Mississippi River and held the post for a record 41 years.
WFAA-TV Chief Meteorologist July 19, 1976 () -July 18 ... Texas in 1958. ... At WCAU he was the first weatherman to use the current 5-day forecast system. Before 1976 ...
From 1996 to 2005, Delkus was the chief meteorologist at WCPO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio. [4] While there, he received a pair of first place Associated Press Awards for best regularly scheduled weather. Prior to joining WCPO-TV, Delkus worked as a meteorologist for four years at WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, Florida.
The first television image of Earth from space from the TIROS-1 weather satellite. 1959 – The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17. It was designed to measure cloud cover, but a poor axis of rotation kept it from collecting a notable amount of useful data.
Former WRAL meteorologist Greg Fishel poses for a portrait in home on Tuesday, July 15, 2020 in Raleigh, N.C.
Within the first five years of the Gold Rush, an estimated 12 million ounces of gold were extracted from the Californian soil. Because the price of gold was fixed in dollar terms at $20.67 per ...
Gary England (born October 3, 1939) is the former chief meteorologist for KWTV (channel 9), the CBS-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.England was the first on-air meteorologist to alert his viewers of a possible tornado using a commercial Doppler weather radar. [2]