Found a mid-1850s Mississippi diary from Duke University. A bit hard to read but I'm able to get some weather scraps.

Finished, well in advance, my AAG Presentation. I will revisit it as the meeting approaches, got 21 very good slides, ideally want to eliminate 2 of them but I could keep all 21.

Avalanche fatality map by state this year so far. Just thought I would mention that for 1862 for California, I have 13 fatalities.

Looks like the current snowstorm at Providence RI shattered the January 18-19, 1857 snow amounts (1857 below).

Around January 17-19, 1857, A big snowstorm hit the eastern USA from South Carolina to Maine. A table below, notice the high amounts in Massachusetts and New York. @drjeffmasters.bsky.social

Snow attention now on the occuring New England storm. I got some experience with old New England historical data. The 1717 storms really stand out as likely the worst ever. I got a diary with zodiac symbols which I've never been able to fully interpret. www.reddit.com/r/newengland...

Snow avalanche deaths don't happen in the Southeast.

Have to look a little bit more into it, but it looks like a bunch of people killed near Sierra City, California in an avalanche in January 1890. #avalanche

Was just looking at my 1862 California data on snow avalanche accidents. At least three to four people died from two accidents, and there is a third that reported at least eight people killed. I need to verify these a little bit more though.

Suggested linkage between Avalanches and Climate Change. I would need to think more on that though. www.scientificamerican.com/article/lake...

I found Mississippi plantation diaries online for the Terry Family, based at Salem MS, across the TN border east of Memphis. Grabbed the 1856, 1857 winter weather stuff. Pretty good. www.msgw.org/tippah/JTind... www.msgw.org/tippah/Terry...

Never thought Salt Lake would lag behind Columbia, South Carolina in terms of snow. cowboystatedaily.com/2026/01/27/s...

Was asked about old snow histories for Columbia, SC. I can say that Columbia experienced snow events of at least a few inches in the years 1849, 1851, 1853. 1855, 1856, and 1857 -- so within an 8-year timespan, snow occurred in 6 of them (1856 and 1857 had multiple snow days).

Forecast visual for Columbia, SC. In some of my research, I have looked at hourly "Snow rates". If this visual verifies, snow duration mostly at least 12+ hours. A somewhat conservative 0.4 inches/hour is applied, at least 5 inches but if snow rates heavier than expected, could be up to 8 inches.

Record "modern" lowest temperature for Louisville KY is -22 F. Looks like on January 19, 1857, it was lower than that.

Portion of the Chapel Hill, NC record in January 1857, on this date, got down to 1 F at 7 AM. Paul Huff keyed in this data. I thought it would show colder numbers, but 7 AM is not necessarily the daily low.

Was looking at my notes on the January 1857 storm from a plantation diary in Tippah County, Mississippi (where they are in the path of an ice storm presently). Location about an hour from Memphis. Looks like in 1857, much more southerly penetration of the cold air and snow.

I had mentioned a series of cold air outbreaks, ice storms, and snow storms impacted the Southeast USA in January 1857. One of the ice storms impacted SW Arkansas (Washington) around January 7-10, as reflected from the record by Dr. Nathan Smith and a local newspaper.

May have to get a little bit more into my January 1857 data if this pending winter storm proves what it will be for the eastern USA. In 1857, Virginia got hammered. glenallenweather.com/alink/01arti...

On historic cold air outbreaks for S Carolina, 2 of the greatest occurred in back to back years: 1856-1857. They include snow and ice storms but I haven't mapped them in detail yet, though I have gotten data for the whole Southeast when I can. Quite dramatic, like this 1857 example.

This on the Jan. 9-10, 1862 big rain-on-flood event west of Lake Tahoe, California. 22 inch snowstorm followed by heavy rains.

Slight snow around Tallahassee yesterday, there apparently a decent snow around this date in 1857.

Salt Lake City still has just 1 snow day (Dec. 27) so far this winter, none in sight for awhile. Latest first snow was January 2, 1891. I looked at my earlier Salt Lake records (back to 1848), got nothing that started that late. #SALTLAKECITYUT www.ksl.com/article/5142...

A newspaper clipping from 1998 described 1862 the Babe Ruth of Storms.

On January 7, this date, in 1849, very warm weather at Matamoros, Mexico (near Brownsville, TX). I think the temperature units are in Celsius, so probably a high near 80 degrees.

July 1862 Hong Kong/Pearl River typhoon that killed over 40,000, I got 5 HMS logs: — HMS Banterer (Hong Kong), HMS Firm (Whampoa), HMS Princess Charlotte (Hong Kong), HMS Snake (Hong Kong), and HMS Urgent (Hong Kong). Also got hourly instrumental records.

There was apparently a huge snow and cold event in January 1868 centered around Eugene OR, lasted into early February. Newspapers provide some scraps, there was an 18 inch snowstorm one day, and snow on the ground rivals 1861-1862. Clipping below is dated Feb. 26, 1868.

From The diary of Steven Chapin Davis, near Stockton, CA during the flood of December 1852.

Santa Ana River Floods, California, probably not updated since 2010. I highlight 1862, which is probably a real rough guess (looks like taken from the Lynch study).

Just looking at the Shasta Courier (Redding CA) on the late Dec. 1861 flood. 150 feet a bit hard to believe...

Weather forecast for the Southeast around Christmas quite warm. December 1827 had a lot of warm days.

From the weather record of Alexander Glennie, refers to -2 F at Columbia SC on Feb. 8, 1835.

Forecast of weather in Columbia SC on Sunday maybe in the high teens. It has been colder before.

My post on honoring Pearl Harbor in 1941 of USS Arizona, when it was still active in 1939 for the California tropical storm.

Early in my career, was told that the Huntington in San Marino, CA, was the ultimate Library for 19th century American West manuscripts. They do have a very good collection, but I would say that the Bancroft and Yale have more extensive materials for my type of stuff.

Right now, looking some at my 1915 Shanghai typhoon data.

I imaged and keyed the weather data from this microfilm 1806 publication of Zebulon Pike's Louisiana Territory Exploration, a long time ago. Glad I did, as now it is much tougher to get access to work easily with microfilm.

In his Revolutionary War Siege of Charleston SC 1780 account, Captain Heinrichs refers to the Hurricane of 1752.

Long time ago, shot a pic of the Shanghai Observatory daily weather map of September 21, 1934 upon seeing the Murato Typhoon. Interesting to compare it with the Japan daily weather map. Landfalling pressure of 911.9 mb.

Somebody in class asked me about the 1821 hurricane for New York, being a major. From my records (extensive), likely a good storm surge but likely a high Category 1-2. It was probably a Cat 3-4 when it made landfall in NC. weather.com/news/weather...

Watching PBS American Revolutionary War documentaries. Thinking, could write a paper on USA tropical cyclones during the American Revolution

Current Southern California storm, not quite a Southeast Gale.

Seeing recent buzz on the Aurora Borealis, reminded me of a September 1-2, 1859 event I have seen in S Carolina diaries and newspapers. Here a sample.

I think for archive research purposes I'll stick with Pixel 9 for now and not spend the money for 10. I would like a little better resolution but that will probably come with the next improvement.

On this date, Nov. 6, in 1954, Typhoon Pamela impacted Hong Kong and Macau as a Cat 1 typhoon. In my records, just 1 of 2 that have done so in the month of November. I got a British log at Hong Kong with a wind observation of 14 of the Extended Beaufort Scale (81-90 knots)

One "big" research project I never started (but got a few logs) was USS Navy logs in the Philippines for typhoons. One reason I never did so is the period is mostly confined to 1899 -1941. But a good number of Navy ships with hourly data during this period. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

Typhoon Kalmaegi now a category 4 typhoon headed for Vietnam.

Models have shifted in the long run for TD32 to the east of Hong Kong. So Hong Kong and probably Taiwan are longshots. For Hong Kong, I have a number of premodern November tropical cyclones. 1900 and 1954, I believe were full-fledged typhoons.

Made a plot of the short Yuma, AZ record that I recently keyed in a spreadsheet. Some obvious occasional quirky things, but mostly seems like a good record.

A newspaper instrumental record from Statesburg, SC (Sumter County). Shows during the "Cyclone" around Halloween had cold temperatures down to 49 F. No way that can be tropical.