For a pretty good history and overview of weather prediction check out the book The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum. * https://www.harpercollins.com/products/th

For a pretty good history and overview of weather prediction check out the book The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum. * https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-weather-machine-andrew-blum https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-weather-machine-a... * https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/ At ~220 pages it's a fun little romp. See also Richard Hamblyn's The Invention of Clouds, a biography on Luke Howard: > In December 1802, Luke Howard delivered a lecture that was to be a defining point in natural history and meteorology. He named the clouds, classifying them in terms that remain familiar to this day: cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus. This new and precise nomenclature sparked worldwide interest and captured the imaginations of some of the century's greatest figures in the fields of art, literature, and science. Goethe, Constable, and Coleridge were among those who came to revere Howard's vision of an aerial landscape. Legitimized by the elevation of this new classification and nomenclature, meteorology fast became a respectable science. * https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312420017 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312420017