Tacoma Weather Bureau on roof of the Fidelity Building. Meteorologist Fred Myers taking readings from instruments. The weather bureau opened at this location on April 1, 1938. (T. Times, 3/31/1938, p. 1).

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Fred Myers, the meteorologist in the U.S. weather bureau office on the 13th floor of the Fidelity Building, 949 Broadway, in Tacoma showed Miss Mildred Tummonds how the various instruments worked in February 1941. As an example of a wind velocity chart, he showed her the record of the winds in November 7, 1940, the day the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed during a wind storm. The winds on that day had reached 41 miles per hour. The Tacoma weather office had instruments for recording temperature, rainfall, and wind velocity. (T.Times 2/26/1941 p.45)

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Fred Myers, assistant meteorologist, and Harold Fickenscher, assistant observer, measure and report the local weather. In this photograph, one of the men is measuring the wind velocity on an anemometer at the weather bureau's tower on the roof of the Fidelity Building. A master thermometer is inside the small structure just above the tower ladder. This equipment, as well as, rain gauges, a sunshine recorder, and a mercurial barometer help make the daily, 24-hour records of weather conditions in Tacoma. The station opened at this location on April Fools Day, April 1, 1938. (T. Times, 3/31/1938, p. 1; 9/12/1944; 2/26/1941 p.45 photo)

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