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...Meteorologist William H. Hoover was recalled from a solar observatory in the Argentine to travel to Mt. Brukkaros in Southwest Africa where Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the National Geographic Society, after studying sites in the Sahara, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Baluchistan, last year discovered an ideal spot for the Institution's first sun station in the Eastern Hemisphere. For three years Mr. Hoover will live, beneath a cloudless, dustless sky, in the Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable...
Pilot von Orman is a quiet studious chap of 32, an Ohioan, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science. Ballooning has made him an astute meteorologist. At the Goodyear plant in Akron, where he is employed, his advice is considered invaluable upon whether or not to go fishing...
...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
...Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus a considerable variety of subjects, and each chapter contains many items of popular interest. For example, we learn something about "frost fighting" in California; the value of expert testimony on the part of the meteorologist in law-suits; the importance of weather forecasts in railroading and in industry; the real facts in connection with Franklin's famous kite experiments, simple rules of protection from lighting. The essential facts in our present understanding of the structure of the atmosphere are vividly illustrated by considering the atmosphere...
...unusually warm day in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. A warm breeze blowing up from the south had raised the temperature to 60°-75°. A cold wind was approaching from the northwest. Any meteorologist could have predicted that a storm was due- but none predicted what took place. Shortly after noon, Death came from the skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most...