Thomas Short's 300‐year weather chronology, 1468–1766

Lawrence, E. N.

doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1997.tb06295.x

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“…The ‘memorial’ details multiple heavy falls of snow from 16 January until 12 March, followed by several lesser falls in April. Thomas Short's published weather chronology of 1749 (see Lawrence, ), referencing the ‘Yolgrave Register’, notes that On the 19th of the Calends of February, fell such a Storm of Snow in the Peak of Derbyshire, and all over the West of England, as was a full yard deep on a Level; and withal such a high Wind, as blew it in vast Drifts, so as Travellers, as well on Horseback as foot, went over Hedges, Fences, stone Walls, & c. It laid long, destroyed much Cattle and Sheep. A great Scarcity of hay followed.…”

Section: The Great Snow Of 1614/1615: Magnitude Extent and Durationmentioning

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“…The 'memorial' details multiple heavy falls of snow from 16 January until 12 March, followed by several lesser falls in April. Thomas Short's published weather chronology of 1749 (see Lawrence, 1997) (Short, 1749, p. 297). There was little let up in the extreme weather as the year progressed, as some areas were inundated with floods as the thaw set in, and summer 1615 was very dry.…”

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The ‘Great Snow’ of winter 1614/1615 in England

Veale¹,

Endfield²,

Bowen

2018

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© 2018 The Authors Weather published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Meteorological Society In this paper we explore the ‘Great Snow’ of 1614/1615 in England. By combining entries in parish registers with other archival documents and literary sources, we can begin to build a detailed picture of this extreme weather event and its temporal and geographical extent, societal impacts, and subsequent inscription into the cultural memory. Certainly one of the heaviest and prolonged snowfalls in England's weather history, in some places the freeze was followed by flooding and then drought, and the combination of successive extremes rendered 1615 a particularly memorable weather year

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Section: The Great Snow Of 1614/1615: Magnitude Extent and Durationmentioning

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The ‘Great Snow’ of winter 1614/1615 in England

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Bowen

2018

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“…Published chronologies represent concerted efforts to produce comprehensive national weather, hydrological or storm histories. These include: Thomas Short's A general chronological history of the air, weather, seasons, meteors, &c (1749) and A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England … to which is added a syllabus of the general states of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years (1767), a source Lawrence (, 145) describes as, ‘a uniquely long and early weather chronology, based on old diaries … centred on Suffolk’; Edward Joseph Lowe's Natural Phenomena and Chronology of the Seasons (1870), a volume that covers the period 220 to 1753 and includes information from parish registers, county histories, periodicals and newspapers, and which he intended to extend to a further two parts as well as a separate volume for ‘foreign countries’ but these do not seem to have appeared; C.E.P. Brooks and J. Glasspoole's British floods and droughts (); C.E.…”

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Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: the example of the TEMPEST database

Veale

Endfield

Davies

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Geography and Environment

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People have long been interested in the history of weather, particularly extremes, and chronologies of past events drawing on information from written records have been compiled and published throughout history. In recent years, concern over current and future weather and climate has triggered a new level of interest in past weather events and their impacts. This interest, alongside the development of digital humanities research methods, has resulted in a rapid growth in the number of online databases relating to historic weather and climate around the world. This paper documents the design, creation and content of one such database, TEMPEST, an online repository for extreme weather history in the UK. TEMPEST has been created as the major output of the AHRC funded project 'Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: The Implications of Extreme Weather in the UK, Past, Present and Future' (2013-2017). Unlike the majority of existing databases that rely on published materials, TEMPEST's records are drawn from primary research into original documentary sources held in archives around the UK. The c. 18,000 records that TEMPEST currently contains offer personalised and geo-referenced insights into the relationship between society and extreme weather in the UK spanning a period of over 400 years. In this paper we outline potential applications for TEMPEST and suggest directions for future research and resources in historical weather. We also consider broader issues for the digital humanities relating to the storage, archiving, ownership, and usage of data and the need to ensure connectivity between complementary datasets.

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Thomas Short's 300‐year weather chronology, 1468–1766

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The ‘Great Snow’ of winter 1614/1615 in England

The ‘Great Snow’ of winter 1614/1615 in England

Dealing with the deluge of historical weather data: the example of the TEMPEST database

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