…newspapers had to rely on the Old Farmer’s Almanac for dire weather predictions. I don’t know how, but I get emails from them and thought this pre-global-warming-list-of-crazy-weather-events was pretty funny:

October 24, 1878 A hurricane hit Philadelphia. October 25, 1919 Bismarck, North Dakota, recorded its earliest below-zero reading, minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit. October 26, 1963 The temperature in Boston was 84 degrees Fahrenheit. October 27, 1843 A storm deposited snow and sleet on Mississippi. October 28, 1973 The Georgia mountains received five inches of snow. October 29, 1963 A snow hurricane in Maine. Cold air on western portion of storm circulation caused snowfall of 6 to 18 inches in western Maine mountains. October 30, 1844 Buffalo Barracks, New York, received 30 inches of snow in a three-day storm. October 31, 1971 New York City experienced an October high temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit.