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Historical Weather Facts for Bostonians

#1 Postby donsutherland1 » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:36 pm

While going through some old records, I ran across some commentary by Professor John Farrar (Harvard University) who took daily weather records at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He observed that the coldest 7-day period there was that of January 16-22, 1812. The mean temperature during that time was just 1.5°.

FWIW, he also noted two of the coldest temperatures recorded there were:

-18°, February 15, 1817 (tied with all-time mark for Boston)
-16°, January 26, 1807 (would be all-time January mark)
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