Forensic meteorology is the science of using weather records, data, eyewitness accounts, and simulations to determine weather conditions at a specific time and location to help provide context or evidence for accidents, crimes, or insurance claims. A forensic meteorologist acts as a "weather detective" to analyze how weather may have contributed to fires, accidents, or damage by corroborating or invalidating accounts using atmospheric information. The goal is to establish whether weather conditions could have reasonably been anticipated or were anomalous.

1. Forensic Meteorology
Ocan, Emmanuel O.

2. What is Forensic Meteorology
• Science of using historic weather records, atmospheric data,
eyewitness accounts and reenactment simulations to determine the
weather conditions at a specific time and location.
• A forensic meteorologists’ analysis might be corroborate or invalidate
an alibi, provide context for an accident, or even to determine if the
conditions could have been reasonably anticipated or were a freak
chance event (Gizmodo)
• The job of this kind of “weather detective” is to help provide
information regarding the specific role that weather (cold, snow,
wind, rain or other types) may have played in a fire or accident that
has caused damage to people or property

4. References
http://gozmodo.com/forensic-meteorologists-solve-crimes-youve-
never-thought-1586035339/1620249231
http://www.emergency-management-degree.org/faq/what-is-forensic-
meteorology/