A Note in the Margin: Roros, February 1947
~ Friday, February 14, 2020 ~
Earlier this year, while requesting digitised historical weather data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute for a separate project on atmospheric baseline conditions, I received a batch of scanned observation logs from the Røros station. Røros is a mining town approximately fifteen kilometres northwest of the Hessdalen valley. The station has been operating since the nineteenth century. I was looking for temperature and precipitation records. What I found, in a log entry dated February 14, 1947, was something else.