William Chapman Weather Records
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Title: William Chapman Weather Records
Dates: 1995-2009
Collection Number: 2019-41
Creator/Collector:
Chapman, William Ashley (1919-2010)
Extent: .25 linear feet (3 notebooks)
Repository:
History San Jose Research Library
San Jose, California 95112
Abstract: Three notebooks created by William Chapman recording daily high and low temperatures and rainfall between May 1995 and November
2009 at his residence at 911 Echo Drive in Los Altos, California.
Language of Material: English
Open to the public for research by appointment.
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William Chapman Weather Records. History San Jose Research Library
Donated to History San Jose in 2019 by the Chapman family.
Scope and Content of Collection
Three notebooks created by William Chapman recording daily high and low temperatures and rainfall between May 1995 and November
2009 at his 911 Echo Drive residence in Los Altos. Occasional weather details are sprinkled throughout, e.g. "overcast," "blustery,"
"beautiful day."
Chapman, who flew private planes and was therefore interested in the weather, was part of a local corps of weather observers
around the San Francisco Bay Area, using analog high-low weather gauges in his garden and at least two rain gauges on his
fence. Local stations KRON and KCBS were in contact with Chapman and used his data for their reporting.
As Chapman got older and his handwriting shakier, his wife Faye took over the data recording. She passed away at the end of
2009, and William Chapman passed shortly thereafter.
Meteorological services
Weather
Nineteen nineties
Two thousands (Decade)
Los Altos (Calif.)
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
notebooks