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Princeton University. University of California, Berkeley.
( From the colonists' first encounter with the American c...)
From the colonists' first encounter with the American climate to the launch of the first weather satellite in space, weather has influenced battles, wars, elections, sports events, balloon launches, airship flights, and many other history-making events. Want to know what part the weather played in ending the Siege in Yorktown? Why President Harrison caught his fatal cold on Inauguration Day? Which was the worst-ever Saturday for football all across the country? David Ludlum, America's acknowledged dean of weather history, answers these questions and describes many more historical weather events and their consequences.
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(Excerpt from the Foreword: The purpose of this work is to...)
Excerpt from the Foreword: The purpose of this work is to set down in chronological order, as far as available historical sources permit, the meteorological situations attending the occurence of hurricanes prior to 1870 which have either closely approached or actually crossed the Atlantic and Gulf coastlines of the present United States...In compiling and arranging the account of individual hurricanes, an effort has been made to present all significant meteorological data available. These have been set down, often at length and with full quotation, with a view of serving as a strting place for the local historical interested in reconstructing the story of the weather past of his own locality or region.
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Princeton University. University of California, Berkeley.
(Excerpt from the Foreword: The purpose of this work is to...)
( From the colonists' first encounter with the American c...)