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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T173000
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URL:https://harrisburgcwrt.org/events/general-they-are-here-the-struggle-f
 or-spotsylvanias-mule-shoe/
SUMMARY:Weather at the Battle of Gettysburg
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, April 11\, as Pennsylvania State Universi
 ty Professor of Meteorology Dr. Jon M. Nese discusses new findings on the 
 weather conditions that prevailed during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 
 of 1863\, and the impact weather had on the outcome of the battle.&nbsp\;\
 nHow “hot” was the fighting at Gettysburg?&nbsp\; It is generally acce
 pted that it was 87 degrees on the afternoon of Pickett’s Charge.&nbsp\;
  But what did it feel like to the soldiers who participated in that epic s
 truggle?&nbsp\; Humidity\, dew point\, and heat index are critical factors
  to answering that question\, as is a thing called “wet bulb temperature
 \,” a term little-known to those outside the field of meteorology.&nbsp\
 ; Drawing on never-before used data for the first qualitative estimate of 
 the combination of heat and humidity for the battle\, Dr. Nese will reveal
  that the actual heat index on the afternoon of Pickett’s Charge was as 
 high as 105 degrees\, which led to heat exhaustion and heat stroke with pr
 olonged exposure and physical activity.&nbsp\; The oppressive heat caused 
 many soldiers to faint and be carried from the battlefield insensible.&nbs
 p\; Is it any wonder the charge failed?\nDr. Nese is Associate Head for Un
 dergraduate Programs in the&nbsp\;Department of Meteorology and Atmospheri
 c Science at Penn State University\, where he teaches a variety of courses
  on weather and atmospheric sciences. He also oversees the Weather Communi
 cations Group which is responsible for&nbsp\;Weather World\, the departmen
 t’s long-running weekday weather magazine show.&nbsp\;Prior to joining t
 he Penn State faculty\, Dr. Nese was chief meteorologist at the&nbsp\;Fran
 klin Institute Science Museum&nbsp\;in Philadelphia from 1998 to 2002\, an
 d from 2002 to 2005\, he was an on-air storm analyst at&nbsp\;The Weather 
 Channel. He is the co-author of The Philadelphia Area Weather Book\, which
  was awarded the 2005&nbsp\;Louis J. Battan Author’s Award&nbsp\;from th
 e American Meteorological Society\, and a college-level introductory textb
 ook:&nbsp\;A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology. &nbsp\;His pre
 sentation will be based on an article that he co-authored with Licensed Ba
 ttlefield Guide Jeffrey Harding entitled Pickett’s Charge—"A Perfect S
 torm of Heat”: Never before Used Data Allows for Heat Index Estimate dur
 ing Fateful Attack\, which appeared in the July 2022 edition of Gettysburg
  Magazine.\nThose who are unable to attend this engagement in person are i
 nvited to tune in to the lecture and Q&amp\;A session via Zoom.&nbsp\; Cli
 ck on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88641390902.&nbsp\; No
  password in required.&nbsp\; To dial in by phone\, call 1-301-715-8592 or
  click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/ko3XCAUcw. The mee
 ting ID # is 886 4139 0902.&nbsp\; Zoom participants should join the meeti
 ng by 7:00 pm.\n
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LOCATION:Central Penn College Conference Center\, 600 Valley Road\, Enola\,
  PA\, United States
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