Historical clue formulations

• Like the proverbial period before a storm — 2025-09-08
• Soothe — 2024-02-04
• Pacific — 2023-02-25
• Like suboptimal kite-flying weather — 2022-08-21
• Completely zen — 2021-11-15
• Placid — 2021-01-12
• Zero on the Beaufort scale — 2020-11-27
• Quiet — 2019-11-10
• Collected — 2019-08-23
• Fifth word ... — 2018-06-14
• Storm harbinger, maybe — 2018-02-11
• Composed — 2016-10-20
• What comes before the storm — 2016-09-12
• Chill, so to speak — 2016-02-20
• Unruffled — 2015-08-24
• Not windy — 2015-06-15
• Unruffled — 2014-04-23
• Not wavy, say — 2012-07-08
• Still — 2012-07-03
• Pacify — 2011-05-11
• 0 on the Beaufort scale — 2011-02-25
• Like Type B personalities — 2011-02-17
• Smooth, as seas — 2011-02-14
• Storm's predecessor — 2009-10-07
• Not having big waves — 2009-05-28
• Sailboat stopper — 2008-11-01
• Simmer (down) — 2007-09-04
• Like the eye of a hurricane — 2007-02-14
• Tranquility — 2005-09-26
• Hard to fluster — 2005-03-01
• Sang-froid — 2004-08-15
• Yachter's woe — 2004-03-24
• Not choppy — 2003-01-03
• Serene — 2002-10-28
• Less than 1 m.p.h., as winds — 2002-09-09
• Storm preceder — 2002-02-04
• Peace and quiet — 2001-12-13
• Good trait to have in a crisis — 2001-11-04
• Yachter's woe — 2001-06-27
• Pacific — 2000-11-24
• Time of smooth sailing — 2000-10-01
• Serene — 2000-06-13
• Like the eye of a storm — 1999-08-25
• Waveless — 1998-12-06
• Waveless — 1998-01-29
• Storm preceder — 1997-07-23
• Peace — 1996-10-30
• Like some seas — 1996-10-22
• Halcyon — 1996-10-08
• Not windy — 1996-05-20