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Cleveland Abbe (Library of Congress) At a Glance Cleveland Abbe is often called "America's First Weather Forecaster."Abbe was the first civilian to work for The Weather Bureau. Abbe created "probabilities," which he eventually renamed "forecasts." T​his story originally appeared in the Morning Brief email newsletter. Sign up hereto get more stories like this and weekday weather updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Did you know that before forecasts were called forecasts, they were first called “probabilities,” and then...