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Space weather and the Titanic disaster ing such precise calculations that allowed him to navigate the Carpathia directly to the lifeboats. Joseph Boxhall died 25 April 1967. As per his wishes, his ashes were scattered over the Titanic's SOS position he calculated on early morning hours of 15 April 1912, 24km off the Titanic's wreck site. While testifying to Wreck Commissioner's Court (1912), Titanic's Second Officer Charles Lightoller said: Of course, we know now the extraordinary combination of circumstances that existed at that time which you would not meet again in one hundred years; that they should all have existed just on that particular night shows that everything was against us. Lightoller might have been just right. It appears that even the Sun was against them.

Satellite images of the distribution of extremely low temperatures in the Scottish Highlands.

Built by a Syrian astronomer in about 50 BC and depicting personifications of the winds on each of its faces, the octagonal Tower of the Winds at Athens (Figure 1) forms the setting for this paper. It contained a water clock operated by a stream from the Acropolis, the hill overlooking Athens, and was topped in antiquity by a Triton (minor sea god) acting as a weathervane. It is still to be seen in the Roman agora (meeting place) and for a long time it was the emblem of the Royal Meteorological Society. It is a powerful visual demonstration of how the weather held a fascination for the ancient Greeks and this is what this paper seeks to explore. It comprises three parts: how meteorology captivated the minds of the Greeks, how they saw it as a practical matter influencing their farming strategies, and how they tried to explain difficult phenomena.Homer and the influence of meteorology on the imagination of the ancient Greeks