Historical climatology - a state of the art review

✍ Scribed by Phil Jones

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 882 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0043-1656
• DOI: 10.1002/wea.245

✦ Synopsis

The July 1978 issue of Weather commemorated a visit to the Society from Her Majesty the Queen on 14 th July. The occasion was the official opening of the Society's then headquarters at James Glaisher House in Bracknell. The issue included a number of specially commissioned articles to mark the occasion. These included a review of highlights from the Society's publications by J. S. Sawyer and a history of the Society written by Robert Ratcliffe. A biographical note on James Glaisher was written by a descendant of Glaisher, J. L. Hunt. Photographs of the visit and the associated exhibition in Bracknell College appeared in the November 1978 issue.

The issue also included one of Mr P. C. Spink's many articles on Scottish snowbeds. It was noted that after the complete loss of snow during the hot, dry summer of 1976, the following year featured the heaviest January to May snowfalls in Scotland since 1951. Amongst the contributors to the Letters pages were C.