Yes, we do have some weather records from July 4, 1776, thanks to one of the Founding Fathers:
from Penn State University's Jon Nese, there was another prominent resident of Philadelphia, Phineas Pemberton, who logged daily weather conditions.According to these records, July 1 was warm and humid with temperatures well into the 80s. The day was mostly sunny, but at around 4 p.m., the sky turned dark, winds came up and thunderstorms developed around the area.
A zoomed-in photo of Thomas Jefferson's weather observations from July 1776. His July 4 observations are highlighted by the square, with the time of each observation at left and the temperature on the right.These temperatures were fairly consistent with those noted by Pemberton, who recorded 71 degrees at 7 a.m. and 76 at 3 p.m.
But given the observations from Jefferson and Pemberton, we can form a fairly good guess at what a weather map probably looked like on July 4, 1776.
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