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...spring tornado season swirled into full blast on the Great Plains last week, such ominous warnings crackled constantly on TV and radio. And it was the proud boast of Meteorologist Donald C. House, head of the Weather Bureau's Severe Local Storm Center at Kansas City, that 55% of the bulletins were right on the button. Another 30% were near misses. Residents of "Tornado Alley" (the south central U.S.) were seldom surprised by unexpected twisters...
When the rough riders have flown for a few more years, Weather Bureau experts believe that meteorologists will be able to pick with certainty the specific thunderclouds that will spawn twisters. Next step will be to exercise a sort of birth control over the violent storms, which last year killed 49 people in the U.S. and did at least $50 million worth of damage. No one knows yet how this control can be accomplished, but Bureau Meteorologist Clayton Van Thullenar says: "If we were not dreamers to some extent, we wouldn't be doing this...
...below the 30,000-35,000-ft. jet stream - and modern aircraft like best the levels near the great, racing jet stream. It has been agreed that CAT is caused by wind shear -the "friction" between adjacent air masses moving at different speeds. Last week Joseph J. George, chief meteorologist for Eastern Airlines, told how this knowledge might be put to work to predict CAT's claws so that airliners can be warned to skirt the peril...
Last week Meteorologist David Johnson of the U.S. Weather Bureau told how Tiros' twin TV cameras, riding 400 miles up, saw things no one had noticed before-and gave a new dimension to the not-so-precise science of meteorology. Until Tiros, the story of what happens overhead had been a matter of educated guesswork, a smattering of facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects...
...gadgets may get a real test this summer. Meteorologist Miller notes that hurricanes have occurred during May only nine times since 1887, and each of those years had an unusually large number of storms. It may be sheer coincidence, or it could be because hurricane conditions become favorable sooner and last longer. If true, the 1959 season may be a lively one. Tropical storm No. 1, Arlene, roared in over Louisiana...