Scope and Content Note

The United States Weather Bureau has produced printed maps of the United States on a daily basis throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These maps show frontage systems, rainfall, temperatures, and other climatological data pertinent to the date of issue.

The collection of daily weather maps is incomplete; neither every year nor every day of the year is represented in the maps gathered by the University of Arkansas Geography Department.

Scope and Content Note Raw data forms with handwritten notations recording precipitation, temperature, and river stages at various locations taken by U.S. Weather Service personnel were compiled from the late nineteenth century up to 1979. The data has been used to produce reports in both manual and machine readable formats by the Bureau since its initial collection. The records have also been used extensively by University of Arkansas Geography Department students and faculty while in the possession of the...