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...year or so ago as a stooge), has reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...
Meanwhile the gloomy air of the weather office pervaded all of Cambridge as the meteorologist announced that the thermometer would hover around zero today. And as Boston prepared for a siege of December that may rival last year's, residents of Maine and New Hampshire heard the roofs crack over their heads while the wood contracted...
...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
Unknown Elements. But the most eminent U.S. meteorologist, Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby, head of Chicago's Institute, smiled skeptically at these notions. Said he: "There's too much of the popular science approach to the geophysical sciences in the U.S. We are far behind Scandinavia, where these sciences are most advanced, because we think in terms of controlling chemicals in a laboratory. We should try instead to establish a delicate balance between man and his environment...
Back to Nature. Meteorologist Rossby believes that war stimulates progress in meteorology, but he expects no miracles after World War II. He urges that city planners study meteorology and meteorologists study city planning, but at best he thinks cities of the future may be made only a few degrees cooler in summer, a few degrees warmer in winter. The most practical step cities can now take toward weather control, says he, is to get rid of their smoke (perhaps by underground smoke tunnels). So doing, they would get more ultraviolet radiation, better visibility, fewer fogs, probably less rain...