History
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I enjoy reading stories describing the climate of different periods. This story from Smithsonian magazine discusses the types of plants that were present during the age of dinosaurs. It was interesting to me to read about how the asteroid impact that led to the end of the dinosaurs eventually led to the development of the…
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Many one-day high temperature records were set in the 1930s in the United States. There is no doubt that there was very hot weather during that time in the central US, and a lot of that can be linked to land use changes caused by misuse of farmland as well as some shifts in ocean…
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Ferocious storms can churn up a lot of coastal terrain, and sometimes very strange things are found, like buried forests from the asteroid that caused the end of the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Another of these events occurred in New Zealand with Cyclone Gabrielle, which hit the North Island along with Vanuatu…
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There has not been much snow in a lot of the Southeast this year in spite of plenty of precipitation because the temperatures have just been too warm when the moisture was in place. So you might enjoy reading about some of the most extreme blizzards that have occurred in history, including a couple that…
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Over Christmas I ran across this very interesting story on Maureen Sweeney, a woman whose forecast helped make D-Day a success. She and her husband took barometer readings in Ireland that were critical for getting the D-Day forecast correct, helping the Allies choose the right day to make the critical landing in Normandy, France. By…
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Those of you who like history might be interested in this story about the first weather map produced. It was put together on January 1, 1871, after the Army Signal Service started taking observations in February 1870. There were only a few stations back then, and none in the west, so the detail was very…
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Today is the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Many media outlets have stories about the invasion and its impacts on World War II. Here is an interesting story posted by Click On Detroit on how the weather played a role in the the Japanese decision to start the attack. The weather also…