Weather was a national obsession and had been for centuries. Countless men, including some of the most prominent of their times, kept daily track of the weather and often for decades on end. Thomas Jefferson kept a lifelong weather journal and on July 4, 1776, despite certain other pressing matters, noted the temperature in Philadelphia to be a lovely 76 degrees.
From Isaac's Storm, written by Erik Larson in 1999, several years before he wrote The Devil in the White City. The storm in question is the deadliest one ever to hit the United States, the one which destroyed Galveston in 1900.
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