Weather Bureau Annual Report, 1863 (Paperback)

The Weather Bureau was originally developed to take meteorological observations at the inland military stations, then alert the Great Lakes and our coasts when major storms were coming. After being part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the bureau jumped for a little less than a century until finally becoming what is now known as the National Weather Service. This is an annual report written to summarize what happened with the weather during that particular year.