Minnesota's weather records just got older and mostly colder (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
From The Star Tribune:
Eighty-five new record daily low temperatures were added to the Twin Cities log book this week, thanks to a project by the National Climatic Data Center to certify two decades of 19th-century weather observations. Thirty-eight of the new record lows were reported in the months of December, January and February.
The new figures emerged from some historical detective work.
The beginning of the "modern" weather log from 1891, when the National Weather Service was organized, has been moved back to 1871.
Those decades, when U.S. Army Signal Service officers in St. Paul were the official Twin Cities weather observers, include the cities' all-time coldest January (1875), the winter a New York Times writer declared St. Paul "the Siberia of America" (1884-85) and the day in January 1888, when great-great grandpa walked to school even though it was 41 below zero.
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Eighty-five new record daily low temperatures were added to the Twin Cities log book this week, thanks to a project by the National Climatic Data Center to certify two decades of 19th-century weather observations. Thirty-eight of the new record lows were reported in the months of December, January and February.
The new figures emerged from some historical detective work.
The beginning of the "modern" weather log from 1891, when the National Weather Service was organized, has been moved back to 1871.
Those decades, when U.S. Army Signal Service officers in St. Paul were the official Twin Cities weather observers, include the cities' all-time coldest January (1875), the winter a New York Times writer declared St. Paul "the Siberia of America" (1884-85) and the day in January 1888, when great-great grandpa walked to school even though it was 41 below zero.
http://www.startribune.com/local/15497206.html
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