Always take the weather with you: 100 years of forecasting broadcasts

In the century since the first on-air report in 1921, meteorologists have - almost - got the science of forecasting down to a fine artExactly 100 years ago today, at 10.05am on 26 April 1921, an unassuming cleric and academic, Rev William F Robison, the president of St Louis University, made history as the first person in the world to broadcast a weather report. He was launching the university’s own radio station, WEW, and followed some opening remarks with a 500-word meteorological bullet