How would we have known how many Atlantic tropical storms there were in the 1930s? No satellites to record them, no airplanes to record them and ships would try to avoid storms.
How would we have known how many Atlantic tropical storms there were in the 1930s?Rise and fall of barometric pressure at a distance by multiple (reporting) stations (incl. ships at sea); observation of the sky for tell-tale circular out-flow cloud patterns.
Just a (heavily-influenced by history, knowledge of meteorology and earth-science SWAG) guess on my part.
/sarc
For nearly a decade, many here at FR and other scientists worldwide have been making the exact same point that these fool people paid by the taxpayers $100,000s+/yr have finally conceded.
Duh... what a surprise... before satellites we didn’t have global weather coverage. What a wonderful insight they have broken upon the world, at least the world of the NYSlimes.