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Weather maven faces flood of queries from readers
A Popular Mechanics note describes how the U S Weather Bureau fields thousands of questions yearly. Readers seek weather history, extremes, and oddities such as the Bik Wind of 1839, record heat in Death Valley and Azizla, and debates on Chicago winds versus other cities.
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