The following are resources referred to in the presentation “Twas a Dark and Stormy Night: Connecting Weather and Personal Histories” by John D Reid for the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, 14 September 2024.
Reconstructed temperature records for the St. Lawrence Valley
Historical climate observations in Canada: 18th and 19th century daily temperature from the St. Lawrence Valley, Quebec, by Victoria Slonosky
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.11
NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology – St. Lawrence Valley, Quebec 18th and 19th Century Daily Temperature Data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/15654
Fort Colonge Records 1824-1831
Liveright J. 1833. Fonds McCord Family, P001-838 “John Liveright’s Thermometrical Journals”. McCord Museum: Montreal, QC, Canada.
Ottawa Storm Film December 1942.
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=filvidandsou&IdNumber=27583&q=1942%20ottawa%20video&ecopy=27583
Canada
Meteorological Service of Canada
http://weather.gc.ca
Scroll to Past Weather and then Historic Data
https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html
Ottawa Weather Stats
https://ottawa.weatherstats.ca/
UK
British Meteorological Office.
http:.//www,metoffice.gov.uk
Scroll to National Meteorological Library & Archive
and find Daily Weather Report
Weather in History: 11,000BC to present
https://premium.weatherweb.net/weather-in-history-11000bc-to-present
USA
US Weather Bureau Historic Weather Records
https://www.weather.gov/
Click on Past Weather
Daily Global Synoptic Weather Maps: 1900 to 1971
https://libguides.library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/synoptic-map
Bonus Items
Northern Tornadoes Project
https://www.uwo.ca/ntp/index.html
The Michael Newark Digitized Tornado Archive
A collection of source and analysis materials related to tornadoes and other damaging wind events dating back to the late 1700s.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/ntp_mndta/
The Climate Trends and Variations Bulletin
A quarterly summary of how Canada’s climate has changed over the recent past and longer through maps of current and past departures from the mean.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/science-research-data/climate-trends-variability/trends-variations.html
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Archives
See the publications
Climatological Bulletin (1967 – 1993)
The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar (1988 – 2019)
Canada’s Top Ten Weather Stories (1996 to date)
Chinook (1978 – 1989)
https://cmosarchives.ca/index_publications.html
Copernicus ECMWF
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