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How is the Thermometer inportant to forecasting the weather,and who is the atual inventor and in what year?
Hi Renea
The thermometer was invented by Santorio Santorio around 1590.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorio_Santorio
http://history.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/science-invention/who-invented-the...
http://www.brannan.co.uk/thermometers/invention.html
The temperature of the air helps weather forecasters to know when precipitation will be rain or snow and how intense storms may be.
For more info, see:
http://www.weatherknowledge.com/
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Donald Rosenfeld
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Any questions (except private) answered from the 1st grade level on up pertaining to any aspect of Weather. I am a 20 year member of the American Meteorological society and a long time forecaster of eastern United States snow storms and Hurricanes.
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