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Weather Timeline
These are some of the weather-related events that changed your ancestors' lives.
Compiled by Maureen A. Taylor
1588 England triumphs over the Spanish Armada due in part to high winds, and becomes a 16th-century superpower 1747-48 Many areas of the United States experience their highest recorded snowfall 1750 Benjamin Franklin publishes a proposal for an experiment to prove lightning is electricity 1758 Benjamin Franklin stops printing Poor Richard's Almanack 1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits in the Caribbean, destroying British and French fleets and killing an estimated 22,000 1792 The first issue of the Farmer's Almanac is published 1841 President William Henry Harrison gives his inaugural address outdoors without a coat, and dies of illness a few weeks later 1845 Rain in Ireland exacerbates the Great Potato Famine and encourages emigration 1849 Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian, creates a telegraphic network of meteorological volunteers 1873 The US Army Signal Corps issues its first hurricane warning 1889 Heavy rains collapse the dam at Johnstown, Pa., killing more than 2,000 1927 Floods cause devastation and social upheaval in states all along the Mississippi River 1938 Hurricane strikes New York and New England, destroying coastal summer communities 2005 Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, cripples the Gulf Coast and spurs mass migration from the area
More on this topic: Weather History Toolkit • Keeping a Family History Research Journal • See the May 2008 Family Tree Magazine for more on US weather events that changed your ancestors' lives.
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