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[[File:6884873348 18e22447cb b.jpg|thumbnail|left|600px300px|Figure 1. Aristotle's understanding shaped European thought on weather observations for over two millennia.]]
We have increasingly become accustomed to seeing the impact of major hurricanes and weather phenomena on communities. Fortunately, over the 20th and 21st centuries, weather monitoring technologies, such as radar, have allowed us to obtain much more warning before events occur. However, weather monitoring has had a long historical road, as past and modern societies have always had a desire to know what would happen to their crops, homes and livelihoods.