cool bio on 1906 SF weatherman

from here

Alexander George McAdie
Meteorologist in Charge of the San Francisco
Weather Bureau office during the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

Alexander George McAdie ( Born 4 Aug 1863, died 1 Nov 1943)
American meteorologist who was a pioneer in employing kites in the exploration of high altitude air conditions. As a college graduate, McAdie in Jan 1882 joined the Army Signal Service, which preceded the civilian U.S. Weather Bureau. He invented and patented devices to protect fruit from frost. He examined the influence of smoke pollution on the atmosphere, McAdie studied the relation between atmospheric electricity and auroral phenomena, and wrote about lightning as a hazard both in the air and on the ground. He believed that the units used in meteorology should be standardized by adoption of the metric system. McAdie was a founder of the Seismological Society of America. Mt. McAdie (13,799 ft.) in the Sierra Nevada was named for him.

Alexander McAdie was also vice president of the Sierra Club from 1904-1913,
and was responsible for the naming of Mount Muir.
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more including handwritten logs at the link.