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Data Accumulates: An Ancient Observatory's Enduring Task

Blue Hill Observatory near Boston has logged weather data for 141 years straight since 1885. This data helps the National Weather Service and climate researchers.

#BlueHillObservatory, #BostonWeather, #ClimateData, #WeatherHistory, #LongTermRecord

https://newsletter.tf/blue-hill-observatory-141-year-weather-record/

The Blue Hill Observatory has collected weather data every single day for 141 years, showing how weather has changed over time.

#BlueHillObservatory, #BostonWeather, #ClimateData, #WeatherHistory, #LongTermRecord
https://newsletter.tf/blue-hill-observatory-141-year-weather-record/

1918 Worst Snow Storm Green Bay WI Postcard
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#GreenBayWI #HistoricSnowstorm #WinterWeather #Snowbanks #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #DowntownScenes #VintagePostcard

1918 Worst Snow Storm Green Bay WI Postcard
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#GreenBayWI #HistoricSnowstorm #WinterWeather #Snowbanks #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #DowntownScenes #VintagePostcard

1918 Worst Snow Storm Green Bay WI Postcard
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#GreenBayWI #HistoricSnowstorm #WinterWeather #Snowbanks #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #DowntownScenes #VintagePostcard

1918 Worst Snow Storm Green Bay WI Postcard
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#GreenBayWI #HistoricSnowstorm #WinterWeather #Snowbanks #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #DowntownScenes #VintagePostcard

1918 Worst Snow Storm Green Bay WI Postcard
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#GreenBayWI #HistoricSnowstorm #WinterWeather #Snowbanks #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #DowntownScenes #VintagePostcard

Who's ready for some snow?
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Buffalo NY Blizzard of '77 Aerial View Postcard
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#BuffaloNY #BlizzardOf77 #WinterStorm #Snowstorm #AerialView #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #GreatLakes #HistoricSnow #Cityscape

Who's ready for some snow?
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Buffalo NY Blizzard of '77 Aerial View Postcard
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#BuffaloNY #BlizzardOf77 #WinterStorm #Snowstorm #AerialView #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #GreatLakes #HistoricSnow #Cityscape

Who's ready for some snow?
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Buffalo NY Blizzard of '77 Aerial View Postcard
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#BuffaloNY #BlizzardOf77 #WinterStorm #Snowstorm #AerialView #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #GreatLakes #HistoricSnow #Cityscape

Who's ready for some snow?
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Buffalo NY Blizzard of '77 Aerial View Postcard
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#BuffaloNY #BlizzardOf77 #WinterStorm #Snowstorm #AerialView #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #GreatLakes #HistoricSnow #Cityscape

Who's ready for some snow?
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Buffalo NY Blizzard of '77 Aerial View Postcard
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#BuffaloNY #BlizzardOf77 #WinterStorm #Snowstorm #AerialView #UrbanHistory #WeatherHistory #GreatLakes #HistoricSnow #Cityscape

Things that appear when rooting through files looking for something else. #akwx #weather #WeatherHistory @CarrieinFbx @Climatologist49

Fairbanks 55 years ago today (June 15) the temperature reached 96F (35.6C). This is the highest (reliable) temperature on record in Fairbanks. The same day the NWS cooperative station at Richardson (between Salcha and Delta Junction) reached 98F, which is the highest undisputed temperature in Alaska. The official Alaska record high temperature is 100F at Ft. Yukon in June 1915. #akwx #Climate #WeatherHistory #Alaska @Climatologist49 @anisian @CarrieinFbx @mivox

Is today's weather unusual? This is something I ask frequently, but I don't have a good way of answering it. I can easily find the average and record temperatures, but that doesn't tell me too much. I am looking for a measure of how today's weather values compare to the expected distribution. It could be as simple as the average and standard deviation. Do you know of any tools that have this kind of information?
#weatherdata
#weatherhistory
#weatherforecast
#climatechange
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The thought of smashing pressure records for my weather-focused story is so, so tempting...and, come to think of it, quite sensible...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/10/10/do-i-dare-smash-pressure-records/

This post's featured image is Alexander Gerst's photo of 2018's Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station.

#weather #meteorology #history #weatherhistory #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #story #writer #writing #author #noreaster #hurricane #superstorm #storm #scifi #sciencefiction

Worldbuilding for 2045's weather in my story, the year leading up to the Christmas superstorm will be a suitably ominous record-breaker...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/24/plotting-out-a-year-of-weather/

This post's featured image is a lightly edited version of my "Storm rising at Devil's Tower" (appropriate for a year that features an unprecedented "La Niña del Diablo").

#worldbuilding #sciencefiction #scifi #weather #weatherhistory #meteorology #meteorologicalhistory #history

Worldbuilding and plotting for the perfect storm has taken some fun and winding turns, which I'm now delighted to share with you.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/15/christmas-blizzard-more-brainstorming/

This post's featured image is "The Blizzard" by Joseph Farquharson.

#weather #blizzard #snowstorm #meteorology #history #weatherhistory #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #story #writer #writing #author #thundersnow #noreaster #hurricane #superstorm #storm #scifi #sciencefiction

Now brainstorming: a perfect storm on the East Coast, and a Christmas of unprecedented extreme winter weather.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/10/the-ultimate-storm/

This post's featured image is Józef Chełmoński's "Cross in a Blizzard".

#weather #blizzard #snowstorm #meteorology #history #weatherhistory #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #story #writer #writing #author #thundersnow #noreaster #hurricane #superstorm #storm #tornado #scifi #sciencefiction #stormchasing

Now brainstorming: one Christmas in the Shenandoah brings the blizzard of a lifetime for my character Georgia...and the love of a lifetime?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/05/a-christmas-blizzard-romance-in-the-shenandoah/

This post's featured image is my own from a December 8, 2018 storm in Asheville.

#weather #blizzard #snowstorm #meteorology #history #weatherhistory #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #story #writer #writing #author #romance #romancestory #lovestory #thundersnow #noreaster #hurricane #superstorm #storm

As I'm listening to the distant rumble of thunder today's blogpost will be about thunderstorms and great fires that destroyed cities:

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/storms-and-fires.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #weather #thunderstorm #histodon #history #weatherphenomena #lightning #weatherhistory

As I'm listening to the distant rumble of thunder today's blogpost will be about thunderstorms and great fires that destroyed cities:

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/storms-and-fires.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #weather #thunderstorm #histodon #history #weatherphenomena #lightning #weatherhistory

As I'm listening to the distant rumble of thunder today's blogpost will be about thunderstorms and great fires that destroyed cities:

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/storms-and-fires.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #weather #thunderstorm #histodon #history #weatherphenomena #lightning #weatherhistory

As I'm listening to the distant rumble of thunder today's blogpost will be about thunderstorms and great fires that destroyed cities:

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/storms-and-fires.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #weather #thunderstorm #histodon #history #weatherphenomena #lightning #weatherhistory

As I'm listening to the distant rumble of thunder today's blogpost will be about thunderstorms and great fires that destroyed cities:

https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/storms-and-fires.html

#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #weather #thunderstorm #histodon #history #weatherphenomena #lightning #weatherhistory

Pittsburgh's longest stretch of consecutive days with no precipitation was 26 days, from Oct. 14- Nov. 3, 1874. Here is a newspaper article from The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial on the event. #WeatherHistory

It was #OTD in 2001 that the central North Slope coast chilled in lowest (low elevation) temperatures so late in the season in #Alaska. The low temperature of -11F (-23.9C) at the Colville Village cooperative station north of Nuiqsut is the latest date in the spring with a not only with a temperature below -10F but also below 0F anywhere in Alaska (again, low elevation).
#WeatherHistory #akwx #Climate
@Climatologist49 @cinderbdt

Dear #ClimateDiary,
Yesterday (May 11th) is the earliest date in year with a temperature of 85F (29.4C) or higher anywhere in Alaska. On May 11, 1995 quite a number of climate stations in central & eastern Interior Alaska reached that threshold, with the highest reliable temperature of 88F at Fairbanks Airport. That turned out to be the highest temperature of the year. #akwx #WeatherHistory
@Climatologist49 @CarrieNash @leepetersen @Leahwrenn

15 years ago, a huge snowstorm buried most of Ohio over 2 days. Snowfall of 10 to 20" was common with over 24" in NE Ohio. This storm came only 2 days after a damaging ice storm struck parts of NE Ohio. See our webpage to learn more! #WeatherHistory storymaps.arcgis.com/stories…

It was #OTD in 1947 that Snag, Yukon Territory (near modern day Beaver Creek) reported a low temperature of -81F (-62.8C), which still stands as the lowest official temperature in North America. To the west in Alaska, Tanacross reported a low temperature that morning of -75F (-59.4C), which is the Alaska February record low temperature.
#akwx #ytwx #Arctic #cold #WeatherHistory
@Climatologist49 @ANC_Historian

Fairbanks #OTD in 1934 marginally came out of the most severe cold snap in community history*. Four straight days, January 12-15, saw temperatures stay in the 50s and 60s below (Fahrenheit). During Jan 1934 there were a total of 39 hours with temperatures of -60F or lower over five separate days. #akwx #weatherhistory
*Cold snap in January 1906 was likely as extreme but no mechanism in use at the time to measure high temps below -39F (freezing point of mercury).
@Climatologist49 @ANC_Historian

In Fairbanks, #Alaska 61 years ago today it was really, really cold: high temperature -55F (-48.3C), low -62F (52.2C). Many people who lived through this ranked this two-week cold snap as most extreme in post WW2 era (worse than Jan 1971 & much worse than Jan 1989). The forecast in the News-Miner headline here turned out to be wildly wrong. The temperature warmed 40ºF the next day and to above 0ºF on New Year's Eve. #akwx #weatherhistory #cold @CarrieNash @tania @ANC_Historian @Climatologist49

It was #OTD in 1970 that Prospect Creek (northern Interior #Alaska) reported a low temperature of -62F (-52.2C). This is the lowest (probably) reliable temperature on record in Alaska in November. #akwx #weatherhistory @Climatologist49