What about the weather flag?

This week area residents received various forms of electronic communication warning of a winter storm expected to impact the area. Based on those warnings the printing schedule for this newspaper was changed. As we listened to the forecasts, we wondered what the Superior weather flag would have been telling early residents of the community.

The Superior weather flag served a useful purpose and was looked at daily by the people of the community just as today we turn on our radios or glance at our telephones for weather bulletins. The weather flag was not unique to Superior. All of the progressi...