Enriching the historical meteorological information using Romanian newspaper reports

This study presents the meteorological information spanning the last two decades of the end of 19th century (1880-1900) extracted from three Romanian newspapers (România Liberă, Gazeta de Transilvania and Foaia Poporului). It describes the characteristics of the newspaper data included in the database, it offers and overview of the meteorological network and climate picture at that time in Romania and discuss some of the climatic features that can be extracted from the database as potential information for further reconstructions.