How about bizarre "winter" weather "anomalies?"
I have many pics from "Snowtober" of downed and iced over trees and power lines from my backyard in CT! On the opposite end of the scale-in 1982 Christmas Day in Buffalo was the warmest on record-a whopping 64 degrees! (the lowest temperatures occurred 2 years earlier in 1980 when the mercury dipped to minus 10 degrees) I remember seeing snow flurries in MAY when I worked in the Boston area back in the late 80s but I can't find any record of it. And I found this moldy oldie... 1816:The Year without Summer, from: http://www.citysource.com/Seasons/snow.html Recent winter weather woes in the East can't compare to "winter" weather that befell the area in June and July of 1816: Connecticut experienced a rare summer blizzard. Snow and sleet fell in Danville, Vermont. Massachusetts had snow flurries. An unseasonably frigid summer brought crop failures all over New England. Savannah Georgia has a high temperature of only 46 degrees F on July 4. Some speculated that Judgement day was near, Others attributed the unusually cold summer across the country to the massive amounts of dust and ash spewed into the atmosphere by the eruption of the Tambora volcano in Java the previous year. More on this one: http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/year-without-a-summer.htm Chris McN ________________________________________ Chris McNevins | ACQUISITIONS COORDINATOR UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | HOMER BABBIDGE LIBRARY 369 Fairfield Way Unit 2005AM | Storrs, CT 06269-2005 USA PH: 860-486-3842 | FX: 860-486-6493 | EMAIL: chris.mcnev...@uconn.edu <mailto:chris.mcnev...@uconn.edu> ________________________________________ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:54 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Friday fun question So... rather than doing a holiday display or anything expected like that, I'm trying to think of other options. Ideas? (BTW, I'll probably do something winter-themed once winter is actually here.) Cheers, Matt ______________________________ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu <https://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=f9bb9e66e0cb45eb9c 98da126198ad7e&URL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu> 434-924-3812
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