The latest issue of NOAA’s “Beyond the Data” blog has an interesting story about the history of the cooperative observer network, the backbone of long-term climate observations across the US. Did you ever wonder how the US has a climate record going back at least 125 years? How do we know what happened before that? You can find out more at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/thomas-jefferson-and-telegraph-highlights-us-weather-observer.

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