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...Tornadoes may spread a rare disease, reported Meteorologist Nicholas Manos of the U.S. Public Health Service. Amid the dust they can pick up and spread is the fungus that causes histoplasmosis, a TB-like disease of the lungs, marked also by swelling of the liver and spleen...
...Rainmaking might possibly start meteorological chain reactions, conjure up violent storms, bring blizzards whistling down from Canada, or even beckon hurricanes off the open sea. This possibility had a military angle: timely cloud-seeding from a safe distance might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York University laid this interesting ghost, or at least cut it down considerably, by reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing should be tried. Backed...
...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...
According to Meteorologist Morris Tepper, the thing for tornado predictors to watch for is a "pressure jump." When conditions are right, as they all too frequently are in tornado regions, the air contains an "inversion," a layer whose temperature is sharply different from the air above or below it. Since cold air is heavier than warm air, the boundary between the layers may have "gravity waves" in it, just as the ocean has waves in the boundary between water...
...earth in north temperate latitudes at heights between 10,000 and 40,000 ft. The planetary wind's general flow is toward the east, so when it captures a hurricane off the U.S. east coast, it generally pushes the spinner out over the Atlantic. But, as many a meteorologist has discovered to his grief, the wind is not constant in direction; it whips from side to side in waves like a shaken rope, carrying hurricanes with...