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People who want to plan picnics may never have a good word to say for the weatherman, but nonetheless he is making progress. In the current Scientific Monthly, Meteorologist Jerome Namias of the U.S. Weather Bureau explains an improved method for general weather forecasting over longer & longer periods...
...ability of University Meteorologist Wallace E. Howell to make rain is still being investigated by the City of New York, the "New York Times" revealed by inference last week. Howell was hired by New York City at $100 a day to make rain during the drought two years ago. Now the City is being sued for a total of $2 million by upstate New York farmers who claim the resultant downpours ruined their crops...
Scottish-born Robert Watson-Watt was once a meteorologist in Britain's weather bureau. His interest at the time was thunderstorms, and he worked out a radio device to track their movements at great distances. Little by little, he learned how to track other things in the air besides thunderstorms...
Wallace E. Howell '36, research meteorologist in the Blue Hills Meteorological Observatory, and New York's rainmaker, flatly refused yesterday to make a comment concerning a set of damage suits totalling $1,500,000 in which he will be co-defendant with New York City officials...
...Meteorologist John H. Conover of the Observatory staff has reduced the climate to a code by studying records dating back 70 years. He claims that "occasionally the critical temperature will occur on a date differing widely from that anticipated. But the probabilities are accurate and if the graphs are played each year, results. in the long run, should be good...