Weather
The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available.
Records relating to the weather and seasonal changes:
- Normanton, Mr Sydney Harbour weather diaries, including newsclippings, 1958-1979 (ref. C621/24-25 WYAS: Wakefield)
- Normanton, weather records: Weather taken at 9.00am daily by E Smith of Haw Hill Park. Gives details of: max/min temperature, earth temperature, rainfall, wind direction, strong/light/calm wind, sunshine, cloud, fog, snow, fair and barometer reading (with special reports and notes at the back), 1926-1949 (ref. WMT/NO/3/4/4-7 WYAS: Wakefield)
- Wakefield meteorological records of Clarence Park Weather Station: WMDC Environmental Health and Services Department records, 1954-1986 (ref. WMD10 WYAS: Wakefield)
- Wakefield Meteorological Weather Station (ref. WWT6 WYAS: Wakefield) including:
- Meteorological registers (with gaps) 1884-1965
- Extra Observations (with gaps) 1899-1927
- Readings and observations (with gaps) 1912-1953
- Greenwich Meteorological Observations (part III) 1841-1890
- Monthly Means and Averages 1884-1968
- Monthly report of the Meteorological Office 1914-1939
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