Researching the Weather

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Here is a choice of journals from the American Meteorlogical Society.
Monthly Weather Review is my favorite; it dates back to 1873.

Here is a partial list of others:
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Weather and Forecasting

http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-archive

 

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1918: The Dustfalls of March

Light falls of dust occur so frequently as to attract no attention except from housewives; heavier falls are rare and pass away so quickly that uantitative measurements of them are not often made. Unusually heavy dustfalls occurred in March, 1918, in the Central and Eastern States.

Gross appearance of the dust.-At Madison, Wis. where the dust was mixed with a good deal of snow, it gave the latter a very light yellowish, or isabeau, tint. At Florence, Wis., "the snow was quite dusty in appearance, as to color a reddish brown", Chelsea, Vt.-“it was noticed here as brown;” Alstead Center, N. H.-“was of reddish brown color", Woodstock, Vt.-‘snow was yellow and pink", At Columbus, Ohio-“A peculiar reddish deposit was observed this morning on windows, and on white paint, where the rain of the morning had evaporated on the roofs.” After the dust-laden snow began to thaw the surface became black at Madison, “rusty” at Newberry, Mich. The snow at Madison, melted for measurement, became black water, and would doubtless have been called “black rain” if it had fallen as rain.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/046/mwr-046-11-0502.pdf

 

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how common is that ?
what's the reason ?

thinking at Qinghai-sandstorm


we need meteorological data in computer-readable form
i.e. weekly absolute humidity or vapor pressure for cities
with long flu-data-series
(see the recent papers about humidity and flu)

I've been using
http://www.wunderground.com/history/
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/Europe.htm

 

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It must have been pretty common for no one to notice but the women. I found this about farming; was it possible for there to be enough dust in the air that it reached those areas?

During World War I (1914–1918) the demand for wheat, along with the invention of the tractor, meant plowing larger areas of the virgin grassland. Between 1914 and 1917, the area of wheat planted increased to 27 million acres, much of which (more than 40 percent) had never been plowed before. After the war, the plowing continued.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406400265.html

It seems almost impossible to connect influenza and weather. I just read that in the tropics, they have year around or 2 flu seasons whose peaks coincide with the rainy seasons (what are the temps then?). Here, flu comes when it's cold and dry; it's all the same flu, isn't it? Well, except for panflu that doesn't seem to care too much one way or the other.

I remember the article where Edgar's mother mentioned her husband sought work in Mexico City (?) due to the drought

Then I considered how much sunshine is there during flu seasons? and does it have any kind of an impact on flu? But flu is almost non-existant in England since 2000 and that's not an especially sunny country, is it?

 

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That journal includes a map of hours of sunshine for each month. Here's the one for Nov. 1918. I wonder if there is any connection between the areas of low sun and the areas of high flu.