Rare 114-year record, kept by generations, logs changing climate
Friday, May 7, 2010 - 10:21
in Earth & Climate
Every day since Jan. 1, 1896, an observer has hiked to a spot at the Mohonk Preserve, a resort and nature area some 90 miles north of New York City, to record daily temperature and other conditions there. It is a rarity: a weather station that has never missed a temperature recording; never been moved; never seen its surroundings change; and never been tended by anyone but a short, continuous line of family and friends, using the same methods, for 114 years.