No one cataloged snow falls in those days. It was winter and it snowed so no one really cared. Snow made travel and other activities more difficult. It wasn’t until Florida travel agents invented the phrase “partly sunny” that people began to care.
When my mother died, she had sworn to me that she had stripped down her world to make it easy for brother and I. I found huge black garbage bags filled with every bus transfer she’d ever received, and notebooks filled with the weather reports copied out of newspapers for her entire life.
Somewhere, someone obsessed about the topic. It’s just a matter of figuring out who and where.