Advent 2023: 17 December

Tracking climate change

Climate change is apparent all around us, as we experience more extreme or unusual weather year on year. This change is evident through comparing our weather today, with that decades or even hundreds of years ago.

Today we have a selection of weather reports from the 17th, 18th & 19th centuries from our collections.

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Meteorological observations for December 1875, from ‘The Weather at Athlone’, from the Norton Collection

 

A recap of the weather from 1725 & 1726 from the Norton Collection (DS/193)

 

December’s weather from 1688 from Ephemerides of the celestial motions and aspects, eclipses of the luminaries, Bolton Library (E.6.9)

 

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