Italy Changed the Weather Forecast

Podcast: Meteorology Matters · Rob Jones

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Before satellites, radar, and computer models, Italian scientists were helping transform how humanity observed, measured, and predicted the weather. In this special Italian-American Heritage Month episode of Meteorology Matters, we trace centuries of scientific breakthroughs, from Galileo’s early temperature experiments and Evangelista Torricelli’s invention of the mercury barometer to the pioneering meteorological observing networks established by the Medici family. At the center of the story is Father Angelo Secchi, the Italian Jesuit scie...