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This week in 1898, the United States, Australia and New Zealand were all experiencing massive forest fires. Three million acres of the Carolinas burned in just a few hours – in the middle of winter. Later that year the northwest quadrant of Colorado was on fire.

12 Feb 1898 – TERRIBLE BUSH FIRES. – Trove

12 Feb 1898 – NEW ZEALAND. – Trove

12 Feb 1898 – THE TASMANIAN BUSH FIRES. – Trove

12 Feb 1898 – A SCHOONER WRECKED. FLOOD AND FIRE. – Trove

12 Feb 1898 – HEAVY RAINS. – Trove

12 Feb 1898 – MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. – Trove

Broken Hill Climate, Weather By Month, Average Temperature (Australia) – Weather Spark

12 Feb 1898 – VICTORIAN FIRES. – Trove

12 Feb 1898 – TASMANIAN BUSH FIRES. – Trove

11 Feb 1898 – NEW ZEALAND. – Trove

San Francisco Call 27 August 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

25 Aug 1898 – FOREST FIRE IN FRANCE. – Trove

San Francisco Call 27 April 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

03 Oct 1898 – FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA. – Trove

Los Angeles Herald 14 August 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

08 Feb 1898 – THE FIRE FIEND. – Trove

San Francisco Call 27 April 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

The Aspen Daily Times June 30, 1898 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

Los Angeles Herald 23 July 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

Los Angeles Herald 31 July 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

Wildland Fire: History Timeline | U.S. National Park Service

22 Feb 1898, Page 3 – The Semi-Weekly Messenger at Newspapers.com

The massive fires of 1898 burned well into November, making the fire season at least nine months long.

“Reports from the western portion of Colorado continue to tell of the ravages of the forest fires which bid fair to devastate the greater part of the forests of the state.”

The Colorado Daily Chieftain October 1, 1898 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

Fort Collins Courier October 6, 1898 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

Herald Democrat October 2, 1898 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

TimesMachine: September 30, 1898 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: October 3, 1898 – NYTimes.com

The Colorado Transcript November 9, 1898 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

Oregon recorded their record temperature of 119F twice during the summer of 1898. This years’s “record” heatwave topped out at 118F.

What is the hottest temperature ever recorded? | kgw.com

San Francisco Call 9 November 1898 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

“THE DAILY MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1951

BIG BUSH, FIRES
Sheep Country Havoc

Twelve big -bush fires are raging over about one-eighth of Queensland’s 670,500 square miles.

“One, roaring along a 120-mile front, has already burned out more than 2,000,000 acres of the best  sheep country in South- West Queensland. It has travelled 70 miles in three weeks.

Police say that no towns are threatened yet by the fires, but stock losses are expected to be heavy.”

12 Feb 1951, 5 – Daily Mail at Newspapers.com

h/t Don Penim

“Tornado Sweeps’ Section Of State Leaving 41 Killed

Montgomery States 42 Dead, Livingston Nine And York One; Two Birmingham Men On List; Rains Flood Ensley Area

Roaring out of Mississippi by way of Meridian a tornado ripped | through Livingston, York and Montgomery, Monday afternoon and Tuesday rescue workers had counted 42 dead, 26 of them in Montgomery, while 200 others were injured when trapped beneath or struck by flying debris”

13 Feb 1945, 1 – The Birmingham News at Newspapers.com

The Biden administration sabotaged a US/Canadian pipeline on their first day in office, and now they are gratified about the sabotage of a German/Russian pipeline – which Seymour Hersh says they blew up.

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

On this date in 1936, a tornado knocked over oil derricks in Long Beach, California.

13 Feb 1936, Page 3 – Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com

ALABAMA
FEB 19, 1884 2:30 pm 26 dead 80 injured
Deaths in six communities; 10 at Cross Plains (now called Piedmont) and 14 at Goshen.

GEORGIA
FEB 19, 1884 2:00 pm 22 dead 100 injured
Most deaths occurred south of Jasper, Pickens County, near Cagle and Tate; large homes swept away.

NORTH CAROLINA
FEB 19, 1884 8:00 pm 4 dead 50
Both large and small homes were destroyed in a swath across Union, Anson, Richmond, and Montgomery counties.

FEB 19, 1884 9:30 pm 23 dead 100 injured
Two people died in the Pee Dee area; 15 other died in the town of Philadelphia.

The United State’s Worst Tornadoes

“A CYCLONE which struck Amberson’s, Ala., demolished nearly every house in town. Fourteen persons were reported killed,

THE South has been visited by a tornado which destroyed thousands of houses and killed hundreds of people in Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi.

THE breaking of a dam on the Los Angeles river produced the most disastrous flood ever experienced in California.’ The lower part of Los Angeles was completely inundated, and forty buildings were swept away. Hundreds of families were obliged to abandon their homes and seek shelter on the hills, The loss amounts to $150,000, From Los Angeles to Mojave, a distance of 100 miles, hardly a mile of the Southern Pacific track remains in place, and east to San Gorgonio, eighty miles, the devastation is ‘equally great. The California Southern road ‘from Colton to San Diego is also washed out. Travel in all directions is suspended. It will probably be two months before communication can be properly established. Reports received from towns in the Southern portion of the San Joaquin valley announced the heaviest floods ever known.”

28 Feb 1884, 4 – Burlington Clipper at Newspapers.com

Climate alarmists imagine a safe and stable climate at lower levels of CO2, but the historical record provides no evidence to support their thinking.

“FEB 10, 1959 1:40 AM 21 dead 345 injured
At St. Louis, nearly 2,000 buildings were damaged; the fourth tornado to hit in this same area since 1871.”

The United State’s Worst Tornadoes

10 Feb 1959, 2 – Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com

“FEB 10, 1921 12:30 pm 31 dead 100 injured An entire section of a lumber mill village of Gardner, Washington County literally vanished.”

The United State’s Worst Tornadoes

11 Feb 1921, 1 – The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com

On February 16, 1936 Glendive, Montana was -50F and on July 5, 1936 they reached 113F. A span of 163 degrees in less than five months.