I had to search my home, for the book i loved so much... but didn't find it. Other early books from the 80s, i still have here... but not that weather book.

In the end, i found a photo of it, and even managed to order a second hand book. It is called

Årets Väder
av Lars Bosæus och Curry Melin
1988

Weheee... That's the one.

Which in one instance described how birds fell from the sky due to extreme cold in May (or June????). And I really want to test my memory - so that I don't say, write or believe in the wrong things. I mean, i would really like to remember the correct data - and not lift off on something i remember wrong. (about the temperature case on the previous page) Who knows, perhaps i did remember it wrong.

Or perhaps - i remembered it correctly.

So, i thought i put that to the test.

The book is slightly older than i remember - from from 1988. Actually i didn't even remember how the book looked like - therefore it took time to find it. Ultimately I did recognize as soon I finally saw a picture of it.

In my book version (somewhere), I had added a lot of new data in the 90s, because during for example in 1994, during that exceptional summer (especially the hot July 1994), many records fell. So, i used to write down additional data.

Perhaps it is still in the basement, who knows.

Sal said, there are more books there... somewhere in a box ? Nevertheless, the book is now on order and will arrive in a week or so.

More records since 1988

Yeah, the book is of course outdated, given that since 1988, we have had several or quite many new records. I might correct that by writing into it - but that too will take time, given that I do not have all records in an accessible form. It's more like a longer time project, where you fill in the blanks, as well add more to it.

I guess in the end, reading the book anew is a bit of nostalgia. What i like about it is - out of memory - that it also refers to events before 1900. Modern meteorology á lá 2026 in Sweden has a tendency to just keep themselves within the frame of 1900 and onwards, but rarely referring to events that happened before the industrial times.

Which i find even more interesting now in the times of confusion about climate, weather and the mix-up between both. Not to mention how easy propaganda can be made out of false associations when it comes to weather, data, faulty and or shady models, predictions, as well the pieces and puzzles by coordinating with past observations. And the issue with leaving out interesting weather and climate data from the past.

It is... a can of worms, to be sure.