Primary Source Spotlight: Weather
Weather primary sources
- Congress requires US military to collect weather data 1870
- Weather Forecasting Among Services to [House] Members
- Weather forecasting primary source set, includes teacher’s guide
- More weather forecasting primary sources
- Weather instruments primary source set
- Weather vanes primary source set
- Weather bureau primary source set
- Weather Service primary source set
- Meteorological stations primary source set
- Weather emergencies primary source set
- Weather sheet music
- Here’s to the friend in stormy weather song recording
- Weather signs recorded oral history interview
- Weather webcasts
- Meteorological Observations February, 1792
- Meteorology maps
- Meteorology images
- Meteorology documents
- Meteorology books
- Storms primary source set
Library of Congress weather-related blog posts
- Analyzing Historical Weather Tools to Understand Core Scientific Concepts Teaching with the Library
- A Beautiful Day For A March Inside Adams
- “Cloudy Joe” and Stormy Weather: Predicting the Weather During Wartime Folklife Today
- The First Isothermic World Maps Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps
- The Groundhog as Weather Prognosticator Teaching with the Library
- Here Comes the Sun: Seeing Omens in the Weather at Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inauguration Timeless Stories from the Library
- Let’s Talk About the Weather In The Muse
- A Little Bit of Sunshine Picture This
- Looking for Data Patterns in Weather-Related Primary Sources Teaching with the Library
- Primary Sources in Science Classrooms: Severe Weather and Community Resilience Teaching with the Library
- Primary Sources in the Science (and Math) Classroom: Thomas Jefferson’s Measurement Problem Teaching with the Library
- Saving Science Blogs Inside Adams
- Severe Weather In Custodia Legis
- Snow Stories in Library of Congress Primary Sources Teaching with the Library
- An Unexpected Storm Teaching with the Library
- A Weather-proof Nation Inside Adams
- World Meteorological Day In Custodia Legis
Teaching resources
- How the Sun Spots Control Our Weather guided primary source analysis activities
- Learning from the Source: Primary Source Trail of Western Migration
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