The Weather Wire - Forecasting Was Born in Morse Weather forecasting needed something nobody had before 1870: the same moment's weather, from everywhere at once. The telegraph supplied it, one Morse transmission at a time. The Signal Service network America's first national weather service was run by the Army Signal Service precisely because it owned the wires and the operators. Readings flowed in by telegraph and were plotted into the first daily weather maps. Warnings faster than storms For the first time, a storm observed in the morning could be telegraphed ahead of itself. Great Lakes shipping and coastal ports got warnings that saved ships - delivered in the same code as everything else on the wire. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/