We focus a lot on a turning point in humankind; World War 1. WW1, also known as ‘The Great War’, was not only terrible in terms of loss of life but the weather conditions which the combatants faced. Just like yesterday’s episode from 1913, this story also features circumstances that were made so much worse because of the lack of communication. You see, the weather was, at times, as hard and deadly as the battles themselves. But in 1914, no one knew what the extent of it would be.  We picked it up today, this day in weather history.

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