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Weather map drawn by the Weather Bureau's Toledo observer and published in the Toledo Blade in Nov. 1913. Depicts the formation of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Unlike modern weather maps, these showed no warm/cold fronts, since frontal mechanisms were not yet understood, and isobars were located in part by eye and guess. (Courtesy: White Hurricane, via Toledo-Lucas County Public Library).
Saturday, November 8th: A surface low has developed along the cold front, though its center is probably somewhat north of what's shown here. The huge mass of high pressure to the west — the source of the northwesterly storm winds over the Lakes — is now clearly visible. The southward bulge of low pressure embraces -- even as it obscures -- the developing surface low over Georgia that will move north overnight to become the final piece in a cataclysmic atmospheric chain of events. (excerpt from White Hurricane)
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