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ACCELERATED TRANSMISSION OF WEATHER MAPS.—The New York Herald of November 7 publishes a map of the weather of that morning, exhibiting the lines of atmospheric pressures and of the temperatures over the United States. The meteorological charting which was finished at the Central Office in Washington at 10 A.M. was immediately transmitted from Washington in fac-simile by telegraph to Philadelphia, where it was received at 10.30 A.M. It was shortly thereafter published in the supplement of the New York Herald of the same day, being the first occasion on which such telegraphic charting had appeared in any newspaper. The fact of telegraphing and printing such charts solves one of the greatest difficulties of exchanges of Weather Reports. It may now be regarded as only a question of time when the more important newspapers of our British large towns will be in a position to present their readers every morning with a chart of the weather as existing only two or three hours before going to press; and indeed it. will not be till this result be effected that the practical utility of weather warnings will be properly developed, owing to our close proximity to the Atlantic and the rate at which our weather-changes pass to the eastward.
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Meteorological Notes . Nature 15, 107–108 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015107b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015107b0