Description: A sample United States weather map for 8 P.M., August 20, 1893, showing typical symbols found on summer weather maps at the time, including symbols for clear weather, partly cloudy, cloudy, and rain, wind arrows showing prevailing wind direction, isobar lines, and shading representing precipitation during the preceding 12 hours.
Place Names: Meteorology, rainfall, cloud coverag
ISO Topic Categories: location,
oceans,
inlandWaters,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Keywords: United States Weather, physical, meteorological, political, kClimate, physical features, country borders,
major political subdivisions, climate,
rainfall, location,
oceans,
inlandWaters,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, Unknown, August 20, 1893
Source: Frank Waldo, Elementary Meteorology (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1896) 280
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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