Description: A sample weather map from 1891 of the United States showing typical weather patterns and a storm system for a day in April. The map shows a low pressure system in the Western Plains moving to the northeast, a high pressure system over the coastal Pacific, and includes isotherms of mean temperatures for a 24 hour period and lines of equal barometric pressure (isobars), both reduced to sea level, prevailing wind directions flying with the arrow symbols, the storm center, and the track of the storm center over the 24 hour period.
Place Names: Meteorology, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, San Diego, Seattle, Washington D.C
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: Condition of the Weather on a certain day in April, climate, meteorological, temperature, winds, kClimate, winds,
climate,
temperature, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, 1891
Source: Edwin J. Houston, A. M. , The Elements of Physical Geography (Philadelphia, PA: Eldredge & Brother, 1891) 148
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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