@OldWeatherPics

Compiling some of the best weather pictures of the past with as much background information as we can provide. Tweets by @sean_breslin.

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Car buried in snow in Kettering, Ohio, following the Blizzard of 1978; This car was reportedly buried in the snow for more than a month. Photo courtesy of NOAA
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Brandon Skalniak@Brando_WX27 Sep 2021
Is there a tornado photo more iconic than this shot of the infamous Dunlap "Double Funnel" F4 from the 1965 Palm Sunday event?
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Cars stacked after the water receded following the deadly Black Hills Flood in Rapid City, South Dakota, June 9, 1972. (馃摳: Rapid City Journal, HT @NWSRapidCity)
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James Spann
@spann2 Apr 2021
OTD in 1957: A tornado moved slowly through Oak Cliff and West Dallas TX. It damaged 574 buildings, mainly homes, injured 200 persons, killed ten, and caused economic loss of $4 million. This tornado was among the most photographed and studied in history.
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Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC31 Jan 2021
Flatiron Building NYC amid newly fallen snow, about 1905: #LOC
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Damage left behind by the 1900 Galveston hurricane that made landfall on Sept. 8, 1900, killing 6,000 people (Library of Congress)
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Tired of the summer heat? Check out this picture of a snowstorm in 1917 in New York City (Library of Congress)
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Flooding from Hurricane Agnes in Wilkes-Barre, PA, June 1972 (National Weather Service)
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Viewing the damage from the Grinnell, IA tornado of June 17, 1882 (Drake Community Library Archives)
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James Spann
@spann5 May 2020
On this date in 1933, most of the town of Helena in Shelby County (AL) was destroyed by a pre-dawn tornado. 14 were killed and 150 were injured; there were no warnings then. These aerial photos were taken by a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Corps and are in the Helena Museum.
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Employees at the Weather Bureau forecast office in Washington D.C., 1926 (NOAA)
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F4 tornado in Wichita Falls, TX, April 10, 1979 (Troy Glover)
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Damage in Higgins, TX, southwest of Woodward, OK, after an F5 tornado on April 9, 1947 (Vernon W. Schaad/U.S. Weather Bureau)
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F5 tornado hits Xenia, OH during the 1974 Super Outbreak, April 3, 1974 (Fred Stewart)
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Old Weather Pictures@OldWeatherPics26 Mar 2018
Car destroyed by the Good Friday tornado in Coatesville, IN, March 26, 1948 (Hendricks County Historical Society)
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Damage to the Georgia Governor鈥檚 Mansion after an F3 tonado hit Atlanta, GA, March 24, 1975 (UPI photo)
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Damage from an F4 tornado in Omaha, Nebraska, March 23, 1913 (NOAA)
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Damage from the Tri-State Tornado in Murphysboro, Illinois, March 18, 1925 (Jackson County Historical Society)
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High water levels in Cincinnati, OH during the Great Flood of 1884, Feb. 14, 1884 (Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County)
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