The first Melbourne newspaper weather chart and “prognostication”
This month is the 130th anniversary of the first publication of a weather chart in a Melbourne newspaper. On Monday 26 September 1881 The Argus published the chart below, with an accompanying article describing the process use in the preparation of the chart. The chart is available at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page260381.
Of course this was not the first Australian weather chart published in a newspaper – the Sydney Morning Herald published the first chart on 5 February 1877. But the article accompanying the 1881 chart in The Argus is interesting, I think. The article commences with the comment:
The “Weather Bulletin” which we have hitherto published is replaced today by a Weather Chart, the facsimile of a chart prepared at the Observatory from telegraphic reports received from the principal meteorological stations in Australia and New Zealand.
The article concludes with:
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