Rain in Nebraska!
"RAIN IN NEBRASKA," the headline read. "LONG DRY SPELL IS BROKEN BY HEAVYSHOWERS." In the hopes that history may repeat itself, here's more of the drought-breaking ...
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Almanacs and Weather Forecasts
Almanacs were standard literature in most Nebraska homes in the late 1800s and well into the 1900s. These calendar-like handbooks were compendiums of odd bits of ...
Keep Up Your Fires! 1874 admonition to homemakers
Before the days of central heating, keeping warm was a constant concern, even during the moderate days of spring and fall. Frugal housewives avoided consuming any more ...
Melbourne, the Rainmaker
Frank Melbourne was one of the best known of a small group of rainmakers active in the Great Plains during the early 1890s. A native of Australia, he came west from Ohio ...
A Midsummer Christmas Eve
The Christmas of 1889 in Omaha was memorable chiefly for the record high temperatures recorded there. The Omaha Daily Bee on December 25, under the headline "Mid-Summer ...
Nebraska As It Is?
Take heart, Nebraskans! The first chill winds of autumn may be blowing, but before youconvince yourselves that another nasty winter looms ahead, consider these words ...
A Midsummer Christmas Eve
This Christmas card from 1880 depicted a warm-weather scene similar to one actually experienced by Omahans on December 24 in 1889. Freakish weather is not unique ...
Major North’s Buffalo Hunt Ended by a Blizzard
About midnight the wind changed to the north, bringing rain and sleet, and within an hour a blizzard was raging on the open prairie.
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Wild Weather Wednesday: 1915 Red Cloud Flood
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesday. Every Wednesday, we post a photo from our collections depicting an extreme weather event from Nebraska’s past.
Floodwaters at ...
Wild Weather Wednesday: Blizzard Derails Train Car Near Wausa, 1915
Welcome to Wild Weather Wednesday. Every Wednesday, we post a photo from our collections depicting an extreme weather event from Nebraska’s past. Nebraska has seen ...
When Conversation Runs Dry…
By Joy Carey, Editorial Assistant
November 2012
We are witnessing firsthand the distress a drought causes in an agricultural community. With record temperatures ...
Almanacs and Weather Forecasts
Almanacs were standard literature in most Nebraska homes in the late 1800s and well into the 1900s. These calendar-like handbooks were compendiums of odd bits of ...
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