10 Famous Meteorologists

How did the science of meteorology become so advanced? Okay, so predicting the weather beyond a week is still difficult, but in the days of some of these famous meteorologists, even measuring the outside temperature was brand new. And yet for others in the list, using the latest radar and satellite images of weather events is second nature.

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1. John Dalton
2. William Morris Davis
3. Gabriel Fahrenheit
4. Alfred Wegener
5. Christoph Hendrik Diederik Buys Ballot
6. William Ferrel
7. Wladimir Peter Köppen
8. Anders Celsius
9. Dr. Steve Lyons
10. Jim Cantore

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