factsheet_21-met-office-history-and-timeline_2024.pdf
over whether accurate forecasting was possible, the first thirteen stations began to send in their observations by telegraph on 3 September 1860. They were Aberdeen, Greenock, Berwick, Hull, Yarmouth, Dover, Portsmouth, Jersey, Plymouth, Penzance, Queenstown (now Cobh), Galway and Portrush. Soon