History
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Today marks the record coldest day in North Carolina, with a record set on Mount Mitchell back on January 21, 1985. Jason Sandford wrote an interesting story about the weather record on that date, which had a high temperature of -4 degrees and a low of -34 F. You can read more about the cold…
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In addition to the story I posted last week about weather on Inauguration Day, here are two more compilations you might enjoy if you are a history buff. Looks like rain for today’s event! At least the odds are 70 to 30 in favor of rain, and historically 43 percent of January 20’s have had…
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Many of you older folk like me probably remember the cold years in the late 1970s. In Michigan, where I was living, the winters and especially the Januarys were particularly bad, with large snowstorms that dumped feet of snow in some locations. Well, one cold outbreak was so strong that 40 years ago today, in…
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With less than a week to go until Inauguration Day on January 20, you might be interested in this look back at the weather on some previous Inauguration Days by Tom Moore of iWeatherNet.com. You can read it at https://www.iweathernet.com/dallas-fort-worth/inauguration-day-weather-highlights-from-the-past. This year’s event is likely to be one of the warmest on record if the current…
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Even though it hit 70 F in Athens today and warm temperatures dominated conditions in the Southeast today, I was interested to read this list of the ten worst all-time ice storms in the US from Weather Underground. You may have lived through some of them yourself, since several were in the Southeast. You can…
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The recent rains on the West Coast have caused many of the rivers there to flood, threatening many cities as well as cropland. Levees are being overtopped and mudslides and fallen trees are blocking roads through the region. You can read more about the impacts of the storm and view pictures of the conditions at…
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Here’s a very interesting story from Atlas Obscura about Jacob and Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian father and son who worked together to understand how the atmosphere moves. Before they provided the basic organizing principles we now know describe how fronts and pressure centers work together to move around masses of air from different parts of…
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