Historical Weather Resources
6/9/2011
By Maureen A. Taylor
In this article:
Web Sites
Books
- Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History by Laura Lee (Harper Paperbacks)
- F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century by Mark Levine (Miramax)
- The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns (Grove Press)
- Great New England Storms of the 20th Century by editors of the Boston Globe (Boston Globe)
- The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan (Basic Books)
- Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (Simon and Schuster)
- Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991 by Thomas P. Grazulis (Environmental Films)
- Storm Warning: The Origins of the Weather Forecast by Pauline Halford (Sutton)
- Storm Watchers: The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin's Kite to El Nino by John D. Cox (Wiley)
- Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti (Back Bay Books)
- Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains by Howard B. Bluestein (Oxford University Press)
- The Weather Factor: How Nature Has Changed History by Erik Durchmied (Arcade Publishing)
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (Mariner Books)