Picture accompanying the report on the avalanche in Sennwald. Source: Berner Hinkender Bote 1771, https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=hib-001:1771:0#74
New research appraises the use of the Swiss volkskalender as a source for popular perceptions of climate history. Analyzing the mass-produced Appenzeller Kalender between 1722-1865, Isabelle Vieli shows how events ranging from thunderstorms to unseasonal snowfall and comets were represented in the years afterward. Read it in full here.