When it comes to 250 years of weather, there’s no better place to start than with our founding fathers.
Thomas Jefferson, the so-called author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, considered weather one of his most important hobbies. He took weather observations every day at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. He wanted to prove to Europeans that the weather was sunny and mild in “the new land.”
Benjamin Franklin is even better known for his interest in weather. His kite and lightning experiment in 1752 proved that lightning is electricity. Franklin also determined weather had a tendency to move west to east. Franklin was the first to map the Gulf Stream off the U.S. east coast…