Espy, James Pollard (1785–1860)
| US meteorologist. He was the first to identify how clouds form and the first to telegraph weather reports to the US War and Navy Departments. He wrote Philosophy of Storms (1841) and was dubbed ‘the storm king’. |
| He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. |
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