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- 1941-02-18
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
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)
Barometers; Weather--Tacoma; United States Weather Bureau (Tacoma); Myers, Fred; Tummonds, Mildred; Scientific equipment;