High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sverre Petterssen (1898-1974) was a Norwegian meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting, and an international leader in meteorology. Born in Norway into a humble family, he paid for his higher education by working at the telegraph office, and a nursery provided by the armed forces that he joined as a recruit. He studied in Bergen where he met Tor Bergeron during a lecture, and was so impressed by his analysis of a 1922 storm that he joined the Bergen School of Meteorology in 1923.