1 August 2011 Last updated at 05:12 GMT Help
On 1 August 1861 the Times newspaper published the first ever weather forecast.
The forecast was put together by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who led the meteorological department in the Board of Trade which was later renamed the Met Office.
John Hammond and Rob Varley of the Met Office told Graham Satchell about the history of a famously difficult art.
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Happy Birthday Weather Forecasts.
Happy Birthday Weather Forecasts.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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...and setting a trend for the next 150 years got it wrong.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”