The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought To See The FutureIn 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, Fitzroys storm warning system and forecasts would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of Gods great wrath, nineteenth century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. But buoyed by the achievements of the