Luke Howard: The Namer of Clouds

Luke Howard: The Namer of Clouds As a young boy growing up in England, Luke Howard (1773-1864) attended grammar school at Burford, a village to the west of London. But Luke was more interested in the books about nature than in volumes of the Greek and Latin classics. During Luke Howard's school years, high levels of dust from volcanic eruptions in Iceland and Japan caused the sky to have a dazzling appearance. Luke Howard was …

…in "Athenaeum Magazine" beginning in 1807. Luke Howard went on to write "The Climate of London", the first book on urban climatology. In it, Howard proposed that cities could significantly alter meteorological elements by how they interacted with nature. Luke Howard was an English amateur meteorologist and pharmacist. He wrote many books and publications and brought new ideas into the scientific community. His biggest achievement was that he developed the foundation for our cloud classification system.