Talk:Great Freeze

Weather Records

Here is a link to the West Palm Beach weather records:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/?n=localclimate

Ryoung122 22:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Events

The last paragraph doesn't really fit here. This isn't the history of orange culture in Florida. It would fit better here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_production — Preceding unsigned comment added by ValerietheBlonde (talk • contribs) 21:25, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

I do agree with you that it doesn't fit on this page, but I don't think it fits on the Citrus production page either, because that looks to be a very broad article on citrus worldwide and the history of citrus in Florida would be too specific. I think it might be better here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida#Agriculture_and_fishing Whirlpool4 (talk) 00:11, 1 June 2017 (UTC) whirlpool4

There's talk of the decade of devastation referring to the 1980s. Is this a typo, with the intended decade being the 1890s? If not, can we get some background as to what happened in the 1980s? ^

The 1980s had more severe freezes that put out the remaining Northern Florida citrus production. 1985 and 1989. B137 (talk) 17:07, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

https://www.weather.gov/ilm/January1985cold 1985 reference. 1989 was the last year Miami recorded a freeze. B137 (talk) 17:16, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Date discrepancy

Not super important, but I came across this page by clicking the link from the Orlando, Florida page that said December 28, 1894, but when I got here, it said December 29, 1894.Whirlpool4 (talk) 00:03, 1 June 2017 (UTC) whirlpool4

Effect on founding Miami

No mention of Miami, where Julia Tuttle showed Henry Flagler that in south Florida oranges survived, prompting him to extend the railroad etc etc. B137 (talk) 00:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Precursor Weather

Greetings,

Massive cold fronts that reach Florida pass through Atlanta on the way down. Atlanta, GA set record lows for Dec. 29, 1894 (4F)(see for link: https://w2.weather.gov/climate/getclimate.php?wfo=ffc) and also 0F on Feb. 7, 1895. The 1895 reading was the Atlanta record for February until 1899, when the 1899 Great Blizzard came through. Some 120 years later, 1895 remains the second-coldest reading in Atlanta for the month of February.Ryoung122 22:43, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

1917 freeze that produced miami record low of 27

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3491822?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents This short cold snap in 1917 that produced Miami's record low temperature was almost as severe as the great freeze, if shorter in duration. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3491822?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents The image on page two might be out of copyright. B137 (talk) 00:50, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

this and UK article should be joined

https://isleofdogslife.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/the-great-freeze-of-1895/ shows it is the same worldwide event. Splitting the articles like this and labeling the UK one as Winter 1894/5 makes no sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.30.115 (talk) 13:30, 12 January 2021 (UTC)