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Title
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Dorothy Mary Fisk (1892–1972) Weather in the Making
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Description
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Weather is nothing more or less than the atmosphere in its varying moods” claims this book’s author. How do you then capture and predict moods? From the 1830s onwards the telegraph allowed weather forecasting to transcend locality. A newly created global network of weather stations required a common language to transfer information. Following a similar development to digital symbols such as emoticons, weather symbols used typographic rather than alphabetic elements to overcome the challenge of international communication in multiple languages. As this table shows, a dot represents rain and an asterisk suggests snow.
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Creator
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Dorothy Mary Fisk
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Date
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1939
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Identifier
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[WdlM] 145
A Thousand Words for Weather
