Ebook: The discovery of weather: Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's gale of 1869

Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869. How we learned to forecast weather -- and the extraordinary story of the prediction that came true for one of the century's worst storms on the East Coast, the Saxby Gale of 1869 -- is the story told in this lively book.The Saxby Gale was the most ferocious hurricane to strike the Maritimes -- until Hurricane Juan. Stephen Saxby was a fascinating nineteenth-century scholar who mixed science with astrology, and had a huge following in his time. As Jerry Lockett explains, Saxby invented weather forecasting.JERRY LOCKETT is a Halifax-based writer and editor. His first book, Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada, won the Dartmouth Book Awards prize for non-fiction in 2011.American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Author's Award - shortlistedCommended - Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award: Honorable Mention Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award - Shortlisted