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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Surface weather being observed at a Weather Bureau instrument panel

Library of Congress · 1943 · Fred Driscoll, for the Office of War Information

A woman marks a paper chart on a recording drum in a room lined with instrument cabinets, dial gauges, a clock and a glass-fronted case of barometric tubes.
From the archive · Library of Congress · 1943 Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Surface weather being observed at a Weather Bureau instrument panel Fred Driscoll, for the Office of War Information

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-038389-D No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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Every long record on this site begins in a room like this one: a person, an instrument and a paper drum, on a schedule. The trends we compute are only as old as somebody's habit of writing the number down.

Shows: What keeping a weather record looked like before telemetry -- the instruments, the charts and the observer.

What this does not let you conclude: Any reading from this station, or any Colorado station. The trends beside this plate are computed from the digital record, which starts long after the record-keeping does. October 1943.

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