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Letter: The very first weather station

Published 13 May 2015

From Heinrich Falk

You say that Mount Washington has since 1870 hosted “the world’s first mountaintop weather station” (11 April, p 22). But the was opened on 1 January 1781 and thus predates the US example by 89 years.
Friedberg, Germany

Issue no. 3021 published 16 May 2015

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