1700's weather?

Question

In the 1700's, did they use the 7 days the same as us? mon,tues, etc. and did they have some type of way or method how they told how the weather would be like? how today we use satelit(sp) back then we didnt have it..

Answer 1

Temperature change, humidity change and rise or fall in barometric pressure were the basic tools used in the 1700's. Barometric pressure is an accurate indicator of approaching storms, but didn't provide much notice. A lot of information regarding severe weather was relayed from travelers and mariners at sea as available. The US national weather service was established in the very late 1800's and was the first of such true meteorological networks. Even then, one of the leaders of that organization declined to accept mariners warnings of approaching storms and failed to warn the people in his area of Galveston, Texas. One of the worst hurricanes in history took an estimated 10,000 lives in the Galveston Storm of 1900 including his own wife.

Answer 2

The current days of the week have been in use in England for well over a thousand years.

Predicting weather without access to remote data (satellites, or even weather reports from distant areas) is very hit and miss, but there are ways to have an idea.

The old saying "Red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" is an example. Weather moves from West to East, so if you see a red sky in the evening - to your west - that means there's only high clouds to the west and tomorrows weather will probably be fine. If you see those high clouds already passed over in the morning, so you see them to the East, then the next weather pattern is probably bad.

Richard

Answer 3

The Farmer's Almanac was the best resource for weather prediction. The 7 day calender week was invented by the Romans.