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Our
National Weather Service has its roots in Nineteenth
Century science  and
policy. The Army Surgeon General began a coordinated attempt to obtain
weather observations from Army posts as early as 1814, followed by a
national network of observers reporting telegraphically to the Smithsonian
in the late 1840's and 1850's, and then the establishment of a true
National weather observation network under the Army Signal Corps in
1870. Since that time there has been a tradition of accuracy, devotion
to duty, and innovation in the methods and technologies of weather observation.
Below is some of the history of the development of that tradition....
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