Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulses of radio waves which are reflected by raindrops, hailstones and other precipitation particles. Shorter waves rebound from the tiny drops of moisture of a cloud's surface. The longer wave bands penetrate clouds like X rays, show only the inner core (if any) of heavy rain or hail.- Thus, by varying wave bands and pulse lengths, the new weather radars can look at a cloud as a whole or can look deeply into it, or even through it. They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance, since the highest storm clouds...
...thing that would distract him was his African drums." Handicap Game. In Tokyo, preparing to pay a bet lost on the U.S. All-Star baseball game, Stars and Stripes Employee Don Schuck went into training for ten days, lost 8 Ibs., then golfed his way through wind, sleet and hail to the summit of Mount Fuji (12,389 ft.), losing 27 balls, taking 1,275 strokes, and after 10 hr. 50 min. holed out into the mountain's 2,000-ft.-wide crater...
...international meets, Paul MacCready, 30, divides his time between meteorological research and running his own outfit, Meteorology, Inc., which specializes in cloud-seeding studies. He began soaring after training as a naval aviator during World War II, has kept it up to help work out his meteorological theories. "Rain, hail, lightning," says Paul, "all of them are byproducts of upcurrents. Soaring is a sport that teaches a scientist something...
...violent weather that nature can serve up. "It's getting awfully hard to see out here," he remarks calmly. "Can't see very much ahead. It's getting a little bit choppy. Beginning to look pretty green.'' Cook explains that "looking green" means seeing hail in the heart of the cloud...
...Hail always looks that way. He does not like hail, and he tries to keep at least five miles away from tornadoes. "If you play too close," he says, "sooner or later you'll plow up a snake. That...