Lockett Jerry - The discovery of weather: Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxbys gale of 1869

Cleveland Abbe: American meteorologist, that countrys first official weather forecaster.

Sir George Airy: Britains Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, a supporter of FitzRoy.

Frederick Allison: Amateur meteorologist in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

R. H. Allnatt: Regular London Times weather correspondent, and critic of Saxbys lunar theory.

Franois Arago: French astronomer and physicist, a supporter of Espy in the storm controversy.

Alexander Dallas Bache: American scientist who, as superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, became involved in a turf war with Matthew Maury.

Christoph Buys Ballot: Dutch meteorologist and proponent of international cooperation in meteorology.

Clement Horton Belcher: Almanac publisher in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis: French scientist who discovered the Coriolis effect.

William Cunnabell: Almanac publisher in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

James Pollard Espy: Brilliant but argumentative American scientist, a.k.a. the Storm King, who discovered that latent heat is the main source of the energy of hurricanes and challenged the views of William Redfield.

William Ferrel: American mathematician who demonstrated that the Coriolis effect affects the motion of winds.

Robert FitzRoy: British Admiral who invented the term forecast, established storm warnings in Britain, and issued the worlds first weather forecast.

Benjamin Franklin: American polymath, and a founding father of the United States, who was the first to realize that storms move from place to place.

James Glaisher: English meteorologist employed at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.

Robert Hare: American scientist who played a minor role in the great storm controversy.

Joseph Henry: Leading American physicist who, as first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, became a leading light in the development of weather forecasting in the United States.

Sir John Herschel: English astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel, who took up Redfields ideas on storms in Britain.

Luke Howard: English amateur meteorologist who classified clouds, and who also believed that the moon influenced weather.

George Templeman Kingston: Pioneer of weather forecasting in Canada, where he initiated storm warnings.

Charles Knight: Publisher of the British Almanac .

George Cargill Leighton: Publisher of the Illustrated London Almanack .

Urbain Le Verrier: French mathematician and astronomer who foresaw the possibility of storm warnings.

Matthew Fontaine Maury: American oceanographer who brought meteorologists together to agree on an international system for recording weather observations.

Richard James Morrison: Notorious astrologer and almanac publisher in England, a.k.a. Zadkiel Tao-Sze.

Samuel Morse: Inventor of the electric telegraph, without which weather forecasting would never have been possible.

Patrick Murphy: English almanac publisher.

Denison Olmsted: American professor at Yale College who championed the work of William Redfield.

Henry Piddington: English sea captain who developed a rule of thumb that helped sailors avoid the worst winds in a typhoon or hurricane.

William C. Redfield: Amateur American scientist who discovered that the winds in hurricanes rotate around a storm centre. Espys main opponent in the great storm controversy.

William Reid: British army officer who studied Atlantic hurricanes and became a great ally of Redfield.

Stephen Martin Saxby: English naval instructor who believed that the moons motion influences weather. Predicted the hurricane of October 4, 1869, that hit the Bay of Fundy.

Zadkiel Tao-Sze: See Richard James Morrison.