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...temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles, of 12° in the Imperial Valley. Los Angeles awoke under a pall of smoke from millions of smudges. It was so dark that lights were burned till afternoon. San Diego had its first snowfall in history (the Government meteorologist described it as "soft hail"). A second night of low temperatures followed. Traffic crawled and tangled on the darkened roads, while hundreds of oil trucks were given the right of way, carrying fuel to the smudges. All this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save...
...your Sept. 28 issue, frequent reference is made to a misleading weather forecast given President Conant on the day of the Harvard Tercentenary celebration of Sept. 18. I probably am the meteorologist referred to in the article, who advised President Conant that "there would be less than 0.1 inch (specifically, I said, 0.05 to 0.06 inch) intermittent rain before 12 noon, and that it would be increasing after that hour to become heavy by the evening, with strong NE wind...
Through the loudspeakers a voice announced that President Conant had consulted a meteorologist who told him that the rain would last only half an hour. Down pounded the mace of Sheriff John McElroy of Middlesex County as it must to open any Harvard ceremony, and by the time Latin Professor Edward Kennard Rand had finished his Salutary Oration and History Professor Samuel Eliot Morison had begun on ''The Early History of Harvard'' the rain had indeed stopped...
Before the degree-granting ceremony was well under way, a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard. Still confident in his meteorologist, President Conant kept stolidly on. A concerned alumnus broke through Secret Service men to President Roosevelt, whose velvet chair had become sodden, offered an umbrella which Mr. Roosevelt smilingly declined. Moment later birdlike Jerome Davis Greene, member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule...
Before each flight, all commercial airlines presumably avail themselves of the best meteorological information their own or the Department of Commerce's air weather bureaus can provide. Whether a plane takes off usually depends on a unanimous decision by the line's dispatcher, meteorologist and the pilot, who in any case cannot be sent up against his will. The Department of Commerce controls plane movements to this extent: According to its size and surrounding terrain, every U. S. airport has an arbitrary ceiling, below which no outbound plane may take off, no inbound plane land...