  A remarkable book on weather forecasting was published just one hundred years
ago. Written by the brilliant and prescient applied mathematician, Lewis Fry
Richardson, Weather Prediction by Numerical Process was published by Cambridge
University Press and went on sale in 1922 at a cost of 30 shillings. Weather
Prediction by Numerical Process is a strikingly original scientific work, one
of the most remarkable books on meteorology ever written. In it, Richardson
described a systematic mathematical method for predicting the weather and
demonstrated its application by carrying out a trial forecast. Richardson's
dream was that scientific weather forecasting would one day become a practical
reality. Modern weather forecasts are made by calculating solutions of the
mathematical equations governing the atmosphere. The solutions are generated by
complex simulation models implemented on powerful computer equipment. His dream
has indeed come true.
