Chapter 785 - Weather Predictions
The meeting began and everyone listened attentively.
The more Landon spoke, the more they realized that this matter was an important one that involved the entire continent... and in future, the entire world!
The 3 guests; Yusha and his disciples Ben and Gregg, also listened excitedly as well.
They felt like they were now involved in some world-changing event.
"Yusha, I will need you and your disciples to temporarily reside in the Capital city for this.
In fact, just this morning, I had already asked for an academy to be built, dedicated to this matter... And you will be the academy"s head.
This is world-changing after that will need your undivided attention.
So if you do accept, then you will have to stay in the Capital alongside your family.
Are you all prepared?"
"We are!"
"We are! We are!"
".... Sorry for my disciples" outburst.
We are prepared, your majesty."
What a joke!
How can they not want to be involved?
Just listening to Landon face them gooseb.u.mps.
They were so excited that they wished they could begin work now!
Hey had dedicated their entire life to the atmosphere.
So how could they not be thrilled?
They had already decided that no matter what, they would move!
Landon linked at them and smiled.
As expected, they agreed.
Every time he chose or picked an overseer or head, he always chose someone who was overly pa.s.sionate about his/her job.
Of course, they also had to be morally grounded too.
As for why he needed their expertise... Well since he couldn"t build a satellite anytime soon, then he had to look for an alternate method.
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One should never underestimate these ancient people.
Even back on earth, way before satellites were invented in the 1960s, the weather was still being predicted.
Some battles had been won in the medieval periods because of weather predictions.
Even the fact that people could see the earth"s changes through the stars showcased how amazing these ancient people were.
That"s why kings and rulers valued them.
For example, in 650 BCE, the Babylonians predicted the weather from cloud patterns and, as well as from the stars.
And way before the Babylonians, Aristotle, Theophrastus and many already compiled books on weather forecasting.
The Chinese, Indians and many others also came predicted the weather as well.
But how did they do it, that was because the ancient people were good at book recording.
They recorded all atmospheric changes, all signs of planetary astral alterations, all signs of rainfall from observation of the Moon"s phases, and most importantly all wind movements.
Even sailors had a hand full of people in their teams dedicated to weather predictions.
As they say: "the red sky at night is the sailor"s delight, but the red sky in the morning is the sailor"s warning."
These people depended on weather reading to pa.s.s the hurdles while on board.
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As for the world Landon was currently in, one should know that even now, these people have been diligently recording the weather for the past tens of hundreds of years now.
From morning, all through the night and day, there were teams that observed in rotation.
However, these people could only be found in moderate-sized cities like Riverdale.
All city lords heavily paid for these astronomers and astrologists to stay in their cities and constantly record the weather changes, as sometimes, these people could predict whether drought was going to occur or not.
Other natural disasters have been avoided many times because of these predictions.
So all city lords typically paid heavily to keep an entire team of these people in their cities.
But small towns and villages couldn"t afford it.
Of course some towns could, but not all.
That said, within Riverdale City, there was a large library that had thousands of books that recorded everything every day for the past years.
Even if it started raining now, there would be a team dedicated to observing and recording the changes.
These people"s eyes were always on the atmosphere.
More importantly, they also looked at their crude wind vanes to observe the wind"s direction too.
And even though they didn"t know anything about temperature and pressure, they typically had other tools and ways to measure what they felt was a hot day or not.
Like the case with the wind.
They had a total of 10 levels to describe the wind.
And their wind vane was also made in that manner.
If the vane didn"t even shake, then the wind was just a level 1 extreme mild one.
Likewise, they also had ways to tell just how hot or cold the weather was.
From using stones, sand and other objects, they had a good understanding of things.
And they wrote every single detail in their books.
Anyway, thanks to their book recording skills, Landon could now stipulate a pattern for the weather and place it on charts and diagrams.
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Before coming here, Landon had already warped and scanned all the books last night.
And from what he saw, the weather didn"t change that much over the years.
For example, snowfall typically started within the 20~28 of December.
It was very rare that it began later or earlier, at least from the data.
Again, they could also predict the times when the winds would be heavy throughout the entire year.
In fact if one plotted all the data from all books and overlapped everything together, they would have a range for every hour, time and day within the year.
That is, they would be able to know the range and probability of rain falling on so-and-so date or even sun s.h.i.+ning then.
Of course, they would still need to watch the current moon"s phases, stars, cloud patterns and what not to make ensure that their predictions were right.
Again from all the books, one could also see the wind pattern clearly.
So now, he could start teaching them what to do.
Firstly, all data needed to be recorded now with temperature, pressure and so on.
That"s why, he decided to make barometers (for atmospheric pressure), hydrometers (for humidity), rain gauges (for precipitation), Ceilometers (for cloudiness), Anemometers (for wind speed) and other tools.
So for the next 4 years, they will create good graphical weather charts and diagrams.
Of course, he would also give them the entire map that had longitudes, lat.i.tudes and whatnot.
Basically, he wanted to teach them numerical weather predictions.
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Yusha and his disciples felt even more excited about this new project.
"Your majesty, I would be honoured to be the Academy head.
But I would like to ask, when can we start?"
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