Wild and crazy weather extremes really are nothing new. I got the following compilation from reader Jimbo:
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Hi Pierre,
Please consider putting up the following as a post. It concerns 1935 bad weather events. It’s intended to put things into perspective for younger folks.
Below is a small selection of newspaper headlines from 1935 reporting on ‘bad weather’ events and some consequences. Some reports overlap into 1934.
STRANGE / ODD / WILD / WEIRD WEATHER – 1935
– Britain Has Winter Heat Wave [Jan.]
– FREAK WEATHER Winter in England FLOWERS BLOOM [Jan.]
– COLDEST WEATHER IN MEMORY. MOTOR CARS SNOWED UP. [Britain] [Jan.]
– SNOW IN MAY. Unusual Weather in England. [May]
– FREAK WEATHER Frosts in England HEAVY LOSSES [June] _______
– HEAT WAVE Extremes in India RECORD OF 124 DEGREES
– PHENOMENAL WEATHER UNPRECEDENTED HEAT WAVE EXTRAORDINARY RAINFALL, Calcutta
– INDIA UNDER FROST Record Low Temperatures Many Deaths from Pneumonia
– COLD SPELL ICE in Torrid India HEAVY DEATH ROLL CALCUTTA
– CATTLE KILLED BY HAILSTONES. CALCUTTA _______ WILD WEATHER Violent Duststorms Sydney
– Abnormal Weather HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODS. FRUIT CROPS AFFECTED. [Australia]
– Bitterly Cold Weather RECORD FOR SYDNEY…[lowest for 71 years in April.]
– LIGHTNING, HAIL, BUSH FIRES WILD WEATHER REPORTED HAILSTONES PIERCE TANKS [Australia]
– DROUGHT HAVOC IN INTERIOR Rabbits and Drift Ravaging Land CLIMATE CHANGE [Australia]
– COOL—HOT—WET—COOL Melbourne’s Chameleon Afternoon _______
– DUST STORMS IN U.S.A. Whole Country Affected FREAK WEATHER EXPERIENCED…
– SEVEN DEAD IN HAILSTORM. HONOLULU
– Freak Weather:…….Niagara Freezes:
– AMERICA’S WINTER 200 Deaths From Cold Frost Reaches Florida _______
– SNOW IN SWELTERING SAHARA ALGIERS 400 LIVES LOST. Torrential. Rain: Gales in Brazil. BUILDINGS COLLAPSE.
– UNPRECEDENTED WIND AND RAIN STORMS. STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY. Bahia (Brazil)
– Rained Jellyfish. MELBOURNE
– ls the Weather Abnormal?
HEATWAVES – 1935
– HEATWAVE IN FRANCE HUNDREDS OF CASES OF SUNSTROKE
– HEAT WAVE IN ITALY DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE [“…100 deaths…”]
– Most Of Continent, In Heat Wave [Europe]
– 122 IN THE SHADE. Madras Suffers. Deaths From Heat Stroke. [India]
– WHEAT ESTIMATE IN U.S. REDUCED Effect Of Rust, Heat, And Drought
– WEATHER EXTREMES. COLD FOLLOWS HEAT WAVE. Hailstorm in Perth Suburbs
– EXTREME HEAT THROUGHOUT STATE 113 DEGREES AT WHITE CLIFFS. SYDNEY
– HEAT WAVE. High Temperatures in New Zealand
– EXTREMES IN WEATHER FOR SOUTH AFRICANS Heat Wave For Match Against Yorkshire
– HEAT WAVE IN SYDNEY MANY PERSONS COLLAPSE
– DROUGHT CONDITIONS Anxiety in Europe Heat Wave in England
– ENGLAND’S HEATWAVE. DROUGHT CONDITIONS. NO WATER SHORTAGE
DROUGHTS – 1935
– DROUGHT IN AMERICA DESTITUTE FARMERS MIGRATION TO ALASKA
– DROUGHT’S TOLL. 5,000,000 SHEEP DEAD. LOSSES IN QUEENSLAND
– DROUGHT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Critical Position
– DROUGHT IN CANADA Grasshoppers Eat Rhubarb FARMERS SAD PLIGHT
– Cargoes Firm Serious Drought in Argentina
– FLOODS AND DROUGHT. HOW CHINA SUFFERS. Children Sold for Bowl of Rice
– SOLDIERS’ BODIES GRIM HARVEST ON OLD BATTLEFIELDS Drought Dried up Swamps [France & Belgium]
– DROUGHT IN SOUTH OF ENGLAND
– IN BAD WAY New Zealand Dairymen SEVERE DROUGHT
– FOOD SHORTAGE Drought in Ceylon GOVERNMENT RELIEF
– Suffering Among Italian Troops [“Drought, malaria, flies, mosquitoes, and blistering heat…East Africa”]
FLOODS – 1935
– 50,000 Dead in Chinese Floods
– DISASTROUS U.S.A. FLOODS Hundred Dead in Five States HEAVY DAMAGES
– WIDESPREAD STORMS FLOODS IN EUROPE AND ASIA MINOR
– FLOODS, STORMS AND TORNADOES 250 Casualties Reported Denver, Colorado
– HEAVY FLOODS IN N.Z.
– DISASTER IN JAPAN 145 People Die In Floods GREAT DAMAGE
QUEENSLAND FLOODS. Bridges Still Under Water
– FLOODS IN CANADA HUNDREDS OF FARMS INUNDATED SEVENTEEN DEATHS REPORTED
– RHONE FLOODS Worst for 95 Years FIFTEEN LIVES LOST RIVER ELEVEN MILES WIDE
– GALE AND RAIN FLOODS IN GREAT BRITAIN
FIJI FLOODS Severe Damage
– 72 PERSONS DEAD Landslides and Floods SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY
– TEN FLOODS IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS [New Zealand]
– 2000 DEAD Cyclone and Floods in Honduras
– FLOODS IN FRANCE Worst for 90 Years FIFTEEN PERSONS DROWNED
– 2000 DEAD OR MISSING HAITI HURRICANE AND FLOODS
– SEVERE FLOODS Dead and Damage IN NEW YORK STATE
– Fatal Floods In Turkey, Spain and France
– 450 BODIES NOW RECOVERED Disastrous Mexican Floods
TORNADOES – 1935
– PLANE CRASHES IN BELGIAN CONGO Seven Killed After Tornado
– FURIOUS, TORNADO DAMAGE AT COOGEE SYDNEY
– FLOODS IN HAITI HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE 1,000 Believed Drowned Torrential Rain Follows Tornado
– TRAIL OF RUIN TORNADO AND FIRES DESTRUCTION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
– TORNADOES Sweep American States. 34 PERSONS KILLED
– FLORIDA TORNADO. Death Roll Growing. Trail of Desolation
STORMS – CYCLONES / TYPHOONS – 1935
– DISASTROUS CYCLONE [NW Australia]
– SEVERE CYCLONE Houses Uprooted in India
– CYCLONE IN FLORIDA Heavy Loss Of Life TOWN OF TAVERNIER RAZED
– BAHAMAS CYCLONE. Extensive Damage. 14 Deaths Reported
– HUNDREDS DEAD IN TYPHOON 75,000 HOMES LOST Destruction in Japan
– OVER 400 LOST IN FLORIDA HURRICANE MIAMI
– HURRICANE DAMAGE. THIRTY REPORTED DEAD. Cuba and Jamaica Swept
– 1000 BELIEVED DROWNED IN HAITI
– HURRICANE RAGING. DAMAGE IN SCOTLAND. SHIPS AGROUND. TRAIN DERAILED
– COOK ISLANDS. Extensive Hurricane Damage
CLIMATE CHANGE? – 1935
– OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Scientists Talk of Post…..[ Australia’s climate is bad,..]
– CLIMATIC ECCENTRICITIES [… more or less off what is regarded as the normal…]
– PLAN TO MELT THE NORTH POLE. AND IMPROVE THE WORLD’S CLIMATE. DAM 200 MILES LONG. ——–
See also 1954: A Bad Year of “Climate Change” – Natural Disasters Pummel Large Swaths of Globe, Again Global Weirding Late 19th & early 20th Centuries Extreme Climate Change: The 1933-1938 Bad weather events.
Bad Weather of the past from Steven Goddard.
Please note that I randomly chose a date between 1910 to 1949 (they tell us that from 1950 humans started have a more noticeable impact). I plan another exercise one decade after – 1945.
Jimbo,
Did you search that in Google? The reason I ask is, if I search “New York” in google news and set the date from say 1900 to 1950, I get nothing. I used to get lots of hits.
Google news search is a problem for me too now. I used http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Thanks, Jimbo. Why should you do it randomly? The present isn’t randomly chosen either. May I advise 1947? That year contained many extremes.
It took me about 3 days to finish the list (in between doing other stuff of life). I’ll see anyway.
I want this to be a resource for people every time you enter a thread and people tell you that the weather is getting weird, odd, crazy, out of balance etc. I could have done this for 1936, 1937,1938 and so on with similar results. It’s just the weather doing its stuff.
Jimbo, just the headlines make me shudder.
My Father remembers a rough year in Scotland immediately after he left school to take over his father’s job as a farm worker. Grandpa took blood poisoning which left him on his back for six months, so Dad had to work to support his parents and two young sisters.
My father was 12 or 13 when he found himself doing a man’s job. I think you may have found the year it happened.
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Interesting. It would seem that apocalyptic alarmism about the weather is an old problem.
Thanks Jimbo.
Except for a bit of travel I have mostly lived in the lower-48 US between 41 North and 47 North. Many cold and warm air masses meet along this belt. I’ve seen a lot of snow, rain, sleet, hail, cold, hot, dry, and wind. No matter what I have experienced, someone, somewhere has seen more or less of all these. Seeing your list(s) provides perspective and, as you mention a resource.
Around that time I saw a sleigh like the one Santa uses in a garage next to the one where my grandpa kept his truck. The garage is still there, a couple of kilometers from Toronto city hall. Don’t know about the sleigh though.
My grandpa used to hitch his horse to the sleigh in the winters to deliver groceries to his customers. A wagon was not much use he said because the snow was too deep. But by 1937 when I last inspected the sleigh, the summers were hotter and the winters not so cold, at least according to my grandpa who was born in York County within Metro Toronto around 1867.
Wow…SHOCKING! You mean to tell me there has always been weather? Did not see THAT one coming:)
So….what you seem to be saying…..is that that the increase in water vapor over the last 30 years or so does not make any difference as to the amount of energy that storms can have. Really?
You are fantasizing.
Water vapor reanalysis shows decline of specific humidity since 1980
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/climate-update-earths-atmosphere-holding-more-water-or-something/#comment-75014
Utter failure of CO2AGW theory.
Global Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Energy.
http://policlimate.com/tropical/global_running_ace.png
Buffy, why do you ask stupid questions? Why don’t you look for data yourself? See, CO2AGW theory fails in each and every regard.
I am glad you are shocked Buddy, it’s terrifying isn’t it? 🙂
No Buddy, YOU SAID THAT not me. Please do back up all your assertions with references and show me the increase in water vapour is due to man’s greenhouse gases.
It’s worse than we thought! 🙁
Buddy, see the Great storms of the Little Ice Age [peer reviewed abstracts].
Expect less violent storms in a warmer world as the temperature gradient between the poles and the equator is reduced. Storms thrive on temperature difference.
Buddy, if you only looked at the data:
http://www.climate4you.com/ClimateAndClouds.htm#Clouds%20and%20atmospheric%20water%20vapour
There has been no water vapor increase. In fact, the upper atmosphere has dried out.
There has been no energy increase in storms either.
https://notrickszone.com/2013/11/21/data-show-cyclone-activity-following-temperature-difference-between-tropics-and-poles-dramatic-decrease-with-warming/
And, I have warned you, turn down the snark level. It doesn’t help your cause. It only convinces us you are a paid troll.
That’s all he has.
They don’t find trolls that know the issue.
Perhaps he gets more paid if he has NTZ on his CV.
And finally Buddy, the Eemian interglacial means you and I should not be here as per water vapor feedbacks. It was a warmer and more humid world 120,000 ago. Hippos frolicked in the Rhine and Thames.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/1040-6182(91)90051-O
http://www.njgonline.nl/publish/articles/000099/article.pdf
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1937 was also a year with very high sunspot activity according to The Royal Astronomical Society. There is a very high correlation with sunspots and weather.