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Title: The climate and weather of Baltimore
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Fassig, Oliver L. (Oliver Lanard), 1860-1936
Subjects: Meteorology
Publisher: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THUNDERSTORMS PRECIPITATION« INCHES 001-ner of the plate. A departure above ( + ) or below (—) the)f departure (indicated by the figures 1, 3, 5 along the radii) is the
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Points in the circumferencp of the cirnle. at the intersaverage (or norma!) value of the factor is shown by tlieaverage seasonal or annual variability of the factor. MARYLAND WEATHER SERVICE 297 Some years later, in 1831, a station of the U. S. Army Medical Depart-ment was established at Fort McHenry, where observations were main-tained with but little interruption until 1892. Between 1830 and 1840,two or three individual Baltimore observers sent occasional reports tothe Maryland Academy of Sciences, or to the Franklin Institute inPhiladelphia. The Smithsonian Institution was established in 1847, and very soonafter numerous voluntary observers reported weather conditions regularlyfrom different parts of the State. The Baltimoreans who cooperated withthe institution between 1850 and 1860 were Dr. A. Zumbrock (1850-52),Dr. Lewis H. Steiner (1853), and Prof. Alfred W. Mayer (1857-59). In the year 1870, the U. S. Weather Bureau (then known as the U. S.Signal Service) was established by ac

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