Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teaming up with the Weather Bureau, the Air Force has given scientific rainmaking a full-dress tryout. It set aside an 8-by-20-mile area near Wilmington, Ohio, and dotted it with ground observation stations. Powerful radar sets kept watch on the air above. When promising clouds appeared, an RB-17 Flying Fortress, loaded with dry-ice pellets, took off from Clinton County Air Force Base; an RF-61 Black Widow photographed the operation...
...from causing rain, the dry ice often produced the opposite effect: it made clouds dissipate. In rolling officialese, the Air Force and Weather Bureau expressed their joint disillusionment: "The responsible scientists of the project interpret the long series of experiments to mean that recently proposed artificial weather modification processes are of relatively little economic importance...
...with rain or snow," and New Englanders may as well face it. Abe Weatherwise says so. For a century and a half, the meteorologist of the Old Farmer's Almanac has been predicting the year-round weather, and for all its radar and radio balloons, the U.S. Weather Bureau has never been able to woo his fans away. His forecast for the coming winter is a moderately pesky...
...definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen-dorph, how often Abe Weatherwise has the last laugh...
...Last year's winter prediction, "white, long and cold," was right for the northeastern U.S. And on 22 "weather highlights" of 1947, Weather-wise claimed he called the turn 50% of the time, the Weather Bureau only...