London's weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports
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Authors
Hulme, M
Burgess, N
Publication Date
2019Journal Title
Weather
ISSN
0043-1656
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
74
Issue
8
Pages
286-290
Type
Article
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Hulme, M., & Burgess, N. (2019). London's weather and the everyday: two centuries of newspaper reports. Weather, 74 (8), 286-290. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3302
Abstract
This study surveys 200 years of London’s weather and its public reporting in newspapers to reveal some of the recurring modes of reporting and linguistic styles that are used to describe and make sense of the human experience of weather. These modes include: the cultural anxieties prompted by ‘unusual weather’; the visual dramas of ‘great storms’; the weather as culpable; and bench-marking extreme weather. Even as the broader processes and patterns of our climate are changing, at the level of the everyday the human and cultural experience of weather remains remarkably familiar.
Keywords
Climate, London, Media
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3302
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282782
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