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...climate can change dramatically over short periods of time. Roughly 11,500 years ago, Greenland suddenly chilled, and then 1,500 years later, it suddenly warmed. The speed of the last change--an 18[degree] warming in some places in as little as three years--was fast enough, a meteorologist wryly commented, to capture the attention of politicians. To put a change of this magnitude in perspective, a mere 2[degree] drop in global temperatures during the 13th century started the "Little Ice Age" that wiped out the Vikings' Greenland colony, spurred glaciers to crush villages in Europe and contributed...
DIED. IRVING KRICK, 89, meteorologist who helped forecast the crucial weather conditions that prompted General Eisenhower to choose June 6, 1944, as D-day for the invasion of Normandy; in Pasadena, California...
That does not make it any less dangerous or severe. "The drought is one of the worst on record," says U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist Ray Motha. Comparisons to the dry disasters of the 1930s strike most observers as inadequate. "We've looked at the stats back to 100 years ago," says Erik Ness, director of communications at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, "and there was more rain during the Dust Bowl than they are getting in Roosevelt County [on the state's eastern plains...
...else, they value simplicity. Gyres of wind, they believe, must be subject to Ockham's razor, a principle first stated by 14th century philosopher William of Ockham. According to this principle, the theories most likely to prove true are those shorn of unnecessary embellishments. But, says Texas A&M meteorologist Louis Wicker, the process of tornado formation now looks more complicated than ever. In fact, the more VORTEX data sets he feeds into his computer models, the more convinced he is that there could be several ways to make a tornado. "Nature," he laughs, "has kicked us in the pants...
...then tornadoes have long been known for their capricious behavior. The same twists of wind that can derail trains and rip up pavement can be surprisingly gentle. Says National Weather Service meteorologist Donald Burgess: "I've seen a phonograph record driven through a telephone pole, and the record wasn't broken. I've seen a fridge thrown several hundred yards, while glasses on a nearby table weren't touched." Last month Betty Lou Pearce, a 64-year-old clerk from Pilot, North Carolina, hid from a tornado in her bathtub and moments later found herself sliding into the woods...