Volumes have been written by and about Henry Helm Clayton. He was a meteorologist and weather forecaster who began his career in 1884 as an assistant at the University of Michigan's Astronomical Observatory. He served as an observer at Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and then worked as a local forecast official with the U. S. Weather Bureau. In 1894, Clayton returned to the Blue Hill Observatory, where he served as a meteorologist until 1909. He became chief of the forecast division of the Argentine Weather Service in 1913, and while there pursued research on a system of weather forecasting based on solar heat changes and began corresponding with Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, who was also conducting research on solar variation. From 1923 to 1926, Clayton conducted research, in cooperation with the Smithsonian, on the effect of solar variation on world weather patterns. He directed a private weather forecasting service and served as a consulting meteorologist for business organizations from 1926 until his death.
H. Helm Clayton married in 1892 Frances Fawn Comyn of Athens, Alabama. They had three children: Henry Comyn, Lawrence Locke, and Frances Lindley Clayton.
His daughter compiled the remainder of his unpublished notes after his death.
H. Helm Clayton married in 1892 Frances Fawn Comyn of Athens, Alabama. They had three children: Henry Comyn, Lawrence Locke, and Frances Lindley Clayton.
His daughter compiled the remainder of his unpublished notes after his death.
Volumes have been written by and about Henry Helm Clayton. He was a meteorologist and weather forecaster who began his career in 1884 as an assistant at the University of Michigan's Astronomical Observatory. He served as an observer at Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and then worked as a local forecast official with the U. S. Weather Bureau. In 1894, Clayton returned to the Blue Hill Observatory, where he served as a meteorologist until 1909. He became chief of the forecast division of the Argentine Weather Service in 1913, and while there pursued research on a system of weather forecasting based on solar heat changes and began corresponding with Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, who was also conducting research on solar variation. From 1923 to 1926, Clayton conducted research, in cooperation with the Smithsonian, on the effect of solar variation on world weather patterns. He directed a private weather forecasting service and served as a consulting meteorologist for business organizations from 1926 until his death.
H. Helm Clayton married in 1892 Frances Fawn Comyn of Athens, Alabama. They had three children: Henry Comyn, Lawrence Locke, and Frances Lindley Clayton.
His daughter compiled the remainder of his unpublished notes after his death.
H. Helm Clayton married in 1892 Frances Fawn Comyn of Athens, Alabama. They had three children: Henry Comyn, Lawrence Locke, and Frances Lindley Clayton.
His daughter compiled the remainder of his unpublished notes after his death.
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