Photo: Lewis Fry Richardson (NOAA at Wikimedia Commons)

Lewis Fry Richardson estimated 64,000 mathematicians needed to calculate real time weather forecasts

Met Office remembers Quaker weather scientist

Lewis Fry Richardson estimated 64,000 mathematicians needed to calculate real time weather forecasts

by Rebecca Hardy 7th May 2021

The Met Office has marked the work of the Quaker scientist Lewis Fry Richardson, who, 100 years ago, began numerically forecasting the weather.