1911 was one of the hottest years in history. It also had record cold.
Margaret writes:
Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year. She told the family that she and her neighbors woke up in the night feeling something was wrong. It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise. They had all become so used to the roar of the Falls that the silence was unusual enough to alert their senses. Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the Falls. Amazing pictures! Almost 100 years old. Can you imagine walking on Niagara Falls?
Obviously a schizo year that heralded double death-spirals for temperature?
Comments at the website, just two, are something else.
Someone named Moranna, perhaps she meant Moron, says …
From what to what!?! Frozen to unfrozen!?!
The other is someone that stumbled on the site while searching for first-aid for a heart attack.
Huh? Someone else will need to interpret.
For 59 days the temperature was minus 40 degrees.