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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.
First weatherman to issue a televised tornado warning Harry Volkman (April 18, 1926 – August 20, 2015) was an American meteorologist [ 1 ] and the first weatherman to issue a televised tornado warning .
She was the first African-American woman to earn a degree in meteorology and was the first female TV meteorologist trained in the field of meteorology in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Early life and education
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.
His first bulletin was issued on 1 September 1869. [3] [7] Abbe was appointed chief meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau on 3 January 1871, which at the time was part of the U.S. Signal Corps. [7] [8] One of the first things that he addressed was the forecasting dimension of meteorology. He recognized that predicting the weather ...
Irving P. Krick (1906 – June 20, 1996) was an American meteorologist and inventor, the founding professor of Department of Meteorology at California Institute of Technology (1933–1948), one of the U.S. Air Force meteorologists who provided forecasts for the Normandy Landings in 1944, a controversial pioneer of long-term forecasting and cloud seeding, and "a brilliant American salesman" [1 ...
2LT Wallace Patillo Reed (November 22, 1919 – November 12, 1999) was a World War II U.S. Army officer, U.S. military meteorologist, and the first ever African-American meteorologist in the U.S. military.
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]