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3000 BC – Meteorology in India can be traced back to around 3000 BC, with writings such as the Upanishads, containing discussions about the processes of cloud formation and rain and the seasonal cycles caused by the movement of earth round the sun. [1] 600 BC – Thales may qualify as the first Greek meteorologist.
500 million years of climate change Ice core data for the past 400,000 years, with the present at right. Note length of glacial cycles averages ~100,000 years. Blue curve is temperature, green curve is CO 2, and red curve is windblown glacial dust (loess). Scale: Millions of years before present, earlier dates approximate.
Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010. Caçador has the lowest recorded temperature, officially, in Brazil, of −14 °C in 1952. Another record, unofficial, of −17.8 °C in 1996-06-29, at the summit of Morro da Igreja, Urubici, also in Santa Catarina, would give the record to this locality.
The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1] If two dates have the same temperature record (e.g. record low of 40 °F or 4.4 °C in 1911 in Aibonito and 1966 in San ...
Modern weather historians such as Christopher C. Burt and William Taylor Reid have also claimed that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 to 2.8 °C (4 to 5 °F) too high. The WMO has come out in support of the current record stating that "We accept that Death Valley temperature extreme record. If any new materials on ...
General. List of weather records. Large-scale events that affected Minnesota. 2007 Midwest flooding. Mid-June 1992 Tornado Outbreak. 1968 Tracy tornado. 1991 Halloween blizzard. Great Storm of 1975. 1936 North American heat wave.
The Medieval Warm Period ( MWP ), also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that lasted from c. 950 to c. 1250. [2] Climate proxy records show peak warmth occurred at different times for different regions, which indicate that the MWP was not a globally ...
Part of the 2013–14 North American winter. The January–March 2014 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event that extended through the late winter months of the 2013–2014 winter season, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and parts of the north-central and northeastern United States. [5]
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