Weather satellite satellite data. Collectively, weather satellites flown by the U.S., Europe, India, China, Russia, and Japan provide nearly continuous observations for a global weather watch. As early as 1946, the idea of cameras in orbit to observe the weather was being developed. This was due to sparse data observation coverage and the expense of using cloud cameras on rockets. By 1958, the early prototypes for TIROS and Vanguard (developed by the Army Signal Corps) were created. The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17, 1959. It was designed to measure cloud cover and resistance, but a poor axis
Clerk of the Weather Clerk of the Weather The Clerk of the Weather or the Weather Clerk is "an imaginary functionary facetiously supposed to direct the weather." The Clerk of the Weather appears in children's stories by Rose Fyleman ("The Weather Clerk"), Robert Swindells ("The Weather-Clerk"), and others. He also appears in facetious turns of phrase such as "another fine day was supplied by the clerk of the weather". In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather" (1836), he is imagined as a 6000-year-old man living on another planet. Within his dwelling, he has a stock of thunderbolts, rainbows,