Highlighted events in the history of the meteorology during 1870.
In the year 1870 two events of singular importance for the history of the meteorology in our geographical area occurred. For Cuba, the most important thing was father's Benito Viñes S. J. arrival from Spain (March 4) bringing the mission of taking charge of the Observatory of the School of Belén, in Havana. Viñes, and the institution to which he belonged, played a primordial role in the development of T.C’s forecasting in the area of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico during the second half of the XIX century.
In that same year, the Congress of the United States sanctioned a law (February 9) by means of which the Signal Service was ordered to make meteorological observations in naval stations and other military facilities. That network began working on November 8 th 1870, under the direction of General Albert Myer (Blair, 1948). At the same time, professor Cleveland Abbe composed daily meteorological charts with " probabilities " for the state of the weather, related mainly with the storms that affected the region of the Great Lakes.
We remember that, for the same time (1869), Buchan traced the first well-known isobaric map in the world; and in the same year 1870, professor Mohn, director of the Real Meteorological Institute of Norway, published his work entitled Atlas of the Tempests.