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January 2020 Newsletter

January 14, 2020

Pioneers of Weather Forecasting 

Happy New Year everyone! In addition to eating way too much over the holidays I watched the newly released film The Aeronauts. It’s an unlikely choice for me as I’m not crazy about heights and this particular movie revels in putting the viewer in white knuckle scenes in and around a hot air balloon as it soars high above the earth. I mention it here because it’s based (loosely) on the pioneering weather research done in the 1860’s.
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In 1862, British meteorologist James Glaisher and co-pilot Henry Coxwell flew a hot-air balloon deep into the London skies, breaking the world record for flight altitude at 38,999 feet and barely making it back alive. Glaisher was one of the early proponents of “weather prediction”, a notion that at the time seemed as impossible as space travel. The idea that you could predict tomorrow’s weather was literally laughable.

We’ve come a long way. While weather forecasting remains the butt of popular jokes there’s not a day that goes by that most of don’t check the weather forecast on our mobile devices (I check mine several times a day btw, but it’s because I’ve usually forgotten what I read hours earlier).

At FlowWorks we continue to develop new and innovative ways to apply weather conditions and forecasts into tools that help our customers better manage collection systems, water resources, and infrastructure resilience. As I write this we are literally completing foundational improvements that will make possible solutions that you might find laughably impossible today. More on that later.


Until next month …
Kevin Marsh

Kevin Marsh

President


FlowWorks, Inc.

FlowWorks Exhibiting in Boston Next Week
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If you’re attending the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) Annual Conference in Boston next week be sure to stop by Booth #443 and say hello. We’ll be showcasing our Infinitii line of solutions including Infinitii CSO Forecaster and Infinitii QA/QC.
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