where might i find weather reports from the year 29AD?

Question

its for a religion class and i need to know about jerusalem. but if you can find anywhere else that might have something from the 29 at all, that would help a lot to.

Answer 1

Have you tried your local library? Perhaps there might be something found in a copy of Noah's Daily Journal!!

Answer 2

From my cursory checks it seems nobody in the Bible, Roman annals or Penguin book of Quotations bothered to mention the weather.

The main thing I do know is that the deserts were much smaller (for example Iraq and Syria were largely fertile areas, the Nile flood plain was twice as large and North Africa had a fertile coastal strip extending 80-160mi inland) and hence Jerusalem would have experienced more humid weather and fewer drought spells.

One way to find out would be to read the Bible for mentions of crops and plants- and then see what grows today. By studying the growing conditions of the Biblical crops which are rare in Israel today you can find out how the weather was different.

Answer 3

There are no "organized" meteorological databases from this time period. However, some reasonable research would help.

Organized meteorological reporting did not evolve until the early 18th century when such conditions became important.

If you are looking for something to use as far as meteorological data is concerned try researching various battles in history from that day. Sometimes clues can be found in the battle. For example, you'll see statements about cold or hot, rainy or some other usually conflicting conditons that hendered travel, a battle, or an activity.

Good luck!

Brian R Cross

Answer 4

About the only sources I can think of outside the Bible--which has very scant info--would be writings of people from that era, like Josephus (Wars of the Jews, History of the Jews, etc.) or some Roman writers--none of whom I can recall at the moment. Unfortunately, that will mean combing through an awful lot of words just to get what you need!

Answer 5

In a newspaper from 29AD in someone's attic?
More seriously, you are only likely to find people's estimates of climate for that time frame so you will be looking at research into climatology, tree rings, etc., for the eastern Mediterranian basin which might include summer and winter temperatures.

Answer 6

Someone mentioned Al Gore's movie...Geological records, NASA, any organization that is seriously investigating trends in weather will have the data, weather it is published or not is the remaining question.