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Rainmaking in New York is again the province of Mother Nature and any witch doctors who may care to turn their hands to it. Wallace E. Howell '36, research meteorologist at the University's Blue Hills Observatory, no longer seeds the heavens for the city's reservoirs...
...Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujihara observed that two hurricanes never collide, but when they come close enough they attract one another and swerve off their former courses. This is because the high-pressure area between them is exhausted by the sucking effect of the two circular storms. So the barometric pressure drops while the pressure outside the storm-pair remains high. This unbalanced condition pushes the two storms closer. At the same time, their violence decreases because of the lack of enough air pressure to keep them spinning as fast as before...
Local weather experts denied that the smoke was an after-effect or rain-making experiments conducted by University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36, as some of the Cambridge populace apparently thought...
University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36 agreed that there may be danger in man's attempts to control the weather, but not necessarily. The recent floods in Winnipeg and the Mississippi Valley were mentioned as instances where man's rainmaking attempts may have backfired...
University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36 agreed that there may be danger in man's attempts to control the weather, but not necessarily. The recent floods in Winnipeg and the Mississippi Valley were mentioned as instances where man's rainmaking attempts may have backfired...