Episode Seven: Weather Vane
The story of weather forecasting is the story of how humans came to think they could predict the future. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at the history of meteorology, and the story of a revolutionary cloud scientist who tried to control the weather. For a transcript of this episode, click here.
KEY SOURCES
Weather Matters: An American Cultural History Since 1900 by Bernard Mergen
First Woman: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere by James Rodger Fleming
Television Weathercasting: A History by Robert Henson
CBS Conquest: Cloud Studies (1958)
The Papers of Joanne Simpson at the Harvard Schlesinger Library