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Irving P. Krick, one of the first WIDELY-KNOWN commercial
meteorologists in the United States, cut a controversial swath
across the meteorological field during the middle of the
twentieth century and, in so doing, earned both avid fans and
fervent critics around the world. Krick’s most ardent supporters
point to a number of accomplishments he made over the years,
including helping provide weather forecasts for the invasions of
Normandy and North Africa during World War II and becoming one
of the first proponents of cloud-seeding technology. But many
established meteorologists questioned the techniques that Krick
used to arrive at his forecasts. Meanwhile, the commercial
meteorological activities that grew out of his forecasting
techniques after the war aroused the profound ire of the
National Weather Bureau when he claimed that he could call the
weather far better than its forecasters could.