weather

I just read a short piece about the German weather station called "Kurt" on Martin Bay on Labrador. The Germans had 26 automatic weather stations called Wette-Funkgerat Land. One was transported to Canada by the submarine U-537 in 1943. It was unmanned and it broadcasted a two-minute weather...

Do we have detailed weather reports for operation Typhoon? I recall claims that the temperature was as low as -40 degrees Celsius in early December, but that seems to be too low for the Moscow region for early December?

I'm referring to the mud/rain of fall and frozen winter of 1941. I have read several sources on Germany's Eastern Front and Operation Barbarossa. The sources conflict with each other. It seems historians subscribe to two different views: Some say that if Guderian had been allowed to push...

How was it for Spanish conkistadors in Central and South America? What is the difference in climate between two places? What else Spaniards did have to fight except natives?

In the battle of Teutoberg Forest, rain caused mud to be a huge problem and greatly aided the Germanic tribes in their victory over the Romans. There is also the famous Russian winter that destroyed Napoleon and Hitler during their invasions of Russia. What are other examples of weather...

Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew in Northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland in October 1943. Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America...

Weather could play a huge role in the success or loss of a battle, or an escape, or other military plans. So, what are some instances where weather took center stage and controlled the show? Please include some details and/or links. One that comes to mind for me is with the USS Constitution...

Thousand fivehundred years ago our planet went through the most extreme short-term cooling episode in two thousand years, causing widespread crop failures and famines around the globe. What do you think caused this extreme cooling and what were the immediate and longterm consequences for our...

In many regions of the earth, those with denser populations from ancient times in particular, the problem of determining the time with some accuracy without any sophisticarted device should be possible. Where the difference between seasons are not that big and the sun throughout the yearcome...

Tree Rings Prove Genghis Khan Owed His Success to Grass I stumbled across this on a news site and thought others might enjoy it.

I saw that there was a thread regarding the Mongol invasion of Japan , but when i read it the thread wasnt regarding what i wondered , what i wondered was , would The Mongol counqered Japan if there not been because of the weather?

The extreme weather events of 535–536 were the most severe and protracted short-term episodes of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. The event is thought to have been caused by an extensive atmospheric dust veil, possibly resulting from a large volcanic eruption in the...

Since i am very interested in antrophology nowadays , this question has been bothering me a lot. My first impressions were those when we look at the hair/skin/eye colour distribution of the world , most light featured people appears on the northern areas whereas the exact reverse on the...

do you think that weather and nature of a country has a substantial effect on its development? i've often heard this guess from some people: (for europe) southern countries have better weather and more fertile land so that they're not that motivated to create new things thus effecting their...

Should man be allowed to alter the weather? If HAARP can cause mega quakes or deadly hurricanes then shouldn't that be considered a weapon of mass destruction?

So do we have a clear understanding of what was the climate and how it evolved from say 2000 BC to 500 AD in and around the med and the middle east ? And how it was different from today ? Rainfall, water availability and temperatures play a crucial part in agriculture and go a long way...

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I have learned a bit about history in my AP classes, and I have become somewhat interested in specific weather events that were very influential in wars (and thus significantly altered the course of history). For example: 1. The Protestant Wind that prevented the...

I try to list a number of crucial naval battles which were lost due to storms that destroyed either fleet. The Persian examples are known. What about others?

I currently live about 20 miles inland from San Francisco. My city and county is blocked from the coast by several small hill ranges that create, "micro-climates." These micro-climate play havoc with the temperature in the area, keeping San Francisco, Bodega Bay, and other coastal towns/ cities...