In the Media

For Smithsonian Magazine, writer Hal Sundt explains how alumnus and meteorologist Horace Byers spearheaded the Thunderstorm Project, a national initiative mapping the internal structure of thunderstorms to improve air travel safety towards the end of World War II. “The meteorologist R.H. Simpson (after whom the category-based Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is partially named), described Byers as ‘the balance wheel in the administration of one of the greatest meteorology programs the world has ever known,’” writes Sundt.