Rough weather for lighthouse keepers.

Rough weather for lighthouse keepers.

Typhoon generated waves striking a breakwater in Japan

North Pacific storm waves as seen from the M/V NOBLE STAR

North Pacific storm waves as seen from the M/V NOBLE STAR

North Pacific storm waves as seen from the M/V NOBLE STAR

North Pacific storm waves as seen from the M/V NOBLE STAR

North Pacific storm waves as seen from the M/V NOBLE STAR

A NOAA Ship in a storm off North Carolina

A NOAA weather buoy off Alaska being serviced

A NOAA weather buoy off Alaska being serviced

A Coast Guard cutter on weather station in the North Atlantic.

A winter storm on the Outer Banks.

The steamer MISSISSIPPI laboring in a typhoon - "...the wind was blowing with the force of a hurricane, in puffs, flattening the sea, and filling the air with spoon-drift..." In: "Cyclones of the Western Pacific," by William C. Redfield, 1856. This paper is included in a group of papers bound under the jacket title, "Law of Storms and Individual Storms. M1500 R315o.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

Huge surf with an offshore wind on Oahu's North Shore.

A few seasick folk were probably wishing it was a little calmer while working on the DELAWARE II. Large swell and wind waves tower over the stern.

NOAA Ship RAINIER crossing the Gulf of Alaska in stormy seas.

Snow survey work - measuring snow depth to gauge the spring runoff In: "The Boy with the U.S. Weather Men", 1917, p. 56

"Measuring the Blizzard's Rage". Shielded snow gauge in the Northwest to register snow-fall. In: "The Boy with the U.S. Weather Men", 1917, p. 224

Forest Service employees measuring snow depth

A cooperative weather station at Granger, Utah Volunteers observe temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, etc.

The rain gage at the cooperative weather station at Granger, Utah

The rain gage at U. S. Smelting Co. cooperative weather station - Midvale, Utah

The Au water-stage recorder for lakes and rivers Very similar to tide gauges

Meteorologist reading temperature on top of Weather Bureau facility

Weather station on Pikes Peak This station was manned sporadically during the late Nineteenth Century

The weather station at Cape Henry, Virginia What a grand place to observe the weather that must have been!

Dodge City, Kansas weather station after snowfall. The building was located on the corner of Spruce St. and Central Ave.

Mr. Peter Wood and child at Amarillo, Texas, weather station.

An Angstrom pyranometer, used to measure albebo. Albedo is the ratio of the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected by a body to the amount incident upon it, commonly expressed as a percentage. Ice has a very high albedo while dark surfaces have low albedo. The measuring element is to the left. In: "Monthly Weather Review," March 1931, p. 118.

An Angstrom pyranometer, used to measure albebo. Albedo is the ratio of the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected by a body to the amount incident upon it, commonly expressed as a percentage. Ice has a very high albedo while dark surfaces have low albedo. The measuring element is to the left. In: "Monthly Weather Review," March 1931, p. 118.