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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
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![]() As far as I know, the first use of this phrase.
Don't miss the description of a space weather map from The Storm by AE van Vogt, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1943 (note that the phrase "space weather" does not occur in that story).
Here's an interesting article from Space Weather journal The Origin of Space Weather:
The astronomer John Herschel, the son of William Herschel (the discoverer of infrared radiation and the planet Uranus), appears to be the earliest to use terms similar to space weather. Writing in 1847 of his observations of sunspots, he uses “solar meteorology” and makes an analogy to terrestrial meteorology...
So what about the actual term space weather? There are several instances of the term being used in the 1950s with each instance having a slightly different meaning. We believe the distinction of the first appearance goes to Fred Hague, a junior high school teacher, in an article written for the Journal of Geography in 1953. In “Motivation Via Video,” Hague writes about using a scenario of aliens visiting the Earth as a way of learning geography [Hague, 1953]. In discussing questions the aliens might ask, he writes “would the climate be suitable for us since we are used to outer space weather?” This is unlikely to have been widely read by the space science community, so it is doubtful that this is the source of space weather as we know it today.
However, it appears that Lawrence Chandler got there first! Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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