Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Great Flood of 1771: An Explanation of Natural Causes and Social Effects....Pages 3-21
Historical Changes to the Tennessee Precipitation Regime....Pages 23-34
“Don’t Want to See No More… Like That!”: Climate Change As a Factor in the Collapse of Lowcountry Rice Culture, 1893–1920....Pages 35-45
Climate in the Historical Record of Sixteenth Century Spanish Florida: The Case of Santa Elena Re-examined....Pages 47-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Historical Accounts of the Drought and Hurricane Season of 1860....Pages 61-77
Reconstructing 19th Century Atlantic Basin Hurricanes at Differing Spatial Scales....Pages 79-97
The Sitka Hurricane of October 1880....Pages 99-106
Daily Synoptic Weather Map Analysis of the New England Cold Wave and Snowstorms of 5 to 11 June 1816....Pages 107-121
March 1843: The Most Abnormal Month Ever?....Pages 123-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Weather Station History and Introduced Variability in Climate Data....Pages 149-169
Monitoring the Climate of the Old Northwest: 1820–1895....Pages 171-188
Spatial Metadata for Weather Stations and the Interpretation of Climate Data....Pages 189-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
A Seasonal Warm/Cold Index for the Southern Yukon Territory: 1842–1852....Pages 209-229
Backward Seasons, Droughts and Other Bioclimatic Indicators of Variability....Pages 231-250
The Challenge of Snow Measurements....Pages 251-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-278