Word: meteorologist
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...Meteorologist Jesse Moore at the NationalHurricane Center said it was too early to tellwhether Hugo would strike the U.S. mainland. Hesaid the storm was expected to be offsouth-eastern Bahamas by tomorrow and "after that,it's anybody's guess...
Although Boston's unseasonably mild winter caused many this year to worry that the summer would break all records for the area's hottest, meteorologist Jeffrey S. Waldstreicher of the National Weather Service said there is little cause to worry...
...there really is an effect," says Van Loon, "there must be an enhancing mechanism, and we don't have the foggiest idea of what that enhancing mechanism might be." Yet the statistical evidence is so compelling that many scientists are taking it seriously. The QBO data have persuaded meteorologist Anthony Barnston, of the National Climate Analysis Center, to incorporate the solar cycle into the computer algorithms for his monthly and 90-day seasonal forecasts...
...National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters shows that the climate in the 48 contiguous states of the U.S. has remained pretty much unchanged for nearly a century. By analyzing data gathered at weather stations across the U.S. between 1895 and 1987, meteorologist Kirby Hanson and two NOAA colleagues found that the average annual temperature had fluctuated between 52 degrees F and 54 degrees F, with no statistically significant long- term trend either up or down. The same was true of average rainfall, which generally ranged from about 33 in. to 36 in. yearly...
...widespread attention has been paid to the greenhouse effect -- the trend toward global warming due to the increase of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere -- some scientists believe that this winter La Nina will bring on a dramatic, though probably temporary, drop in average global temperatures. Says meteorologist and oceanographer James O'Brien of Florida State University: "We are predicting that by next year, average global temperature will retreat to 1950s levels, slowing up planetary warming by 30 to 35 years...