Gordon Manley and Snow
August 12, 2013
Much of the ‘Weather Walks’ project was focused around the archives of the climatologist Gordon Manley. His work on snow will inform form part of ‘Snow Scenes’ and was certainly a source of inspiration for the project at the application stage, so I thought it would be a good idea to write a short post …
The National Snow Survey of Great Britain
August 2, 2013
Throughout the project we’ll be exploring some of the sources that can be used to explore past snow events in Britain. The subject of today’s post is the National Snow Survey of Great Britain. At one of the first meetings of the Association for the Study of Snow and Ice held in October 1937, members …