Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northeast, in particular, suffered from the vernal cold snap that oldtimers call "dogwood winter." New York City shivered through its coldest spring in 50 years, and May seemed to disappear altogether, with temperatures averaging 7.2° below normal. Thousands of northbound scarlet tanagers and other birds-whose migratory urge is regulated by the lengthening of the days rather than the rising of the mercury-starved to death for lack of caterpillars, which hatched three weeks late...
...effects have been far-reaching. Crops were hit hard, from the fragile, cheesecloth-shaded tobacco leaves in the Northeast to the whole cornucopia of California fruits, particularly pears, apples, tomatoes and citrus. In Los Angeles, the rains brought unusually lush vegetation to the hills, posing a serious fire hazard for late summer, when the greenery bakes tinder...
...many areas, the dogwood winter may extend right into summer. In the Northeast, weathermen predict a colder, wetter June than usual, and at the U.S. Weather Bureau's Extended Forecast Division, meteorologists glumly note that cold springs are frequently followed by cool summers. Though beach-wear sales are lagging in Eastern stores, many expect rainwear volume to set a record...
...while flying MIGCAP (for "combat air patrol") in a raid on the Hanoi transformer installation. A weekend ago, he and his "gibs" (guy-in-the-back-seat, or copilot) spotted 15 slower but more maneuverable MIG-17s coming up fast during a fighter-bomber raid 40 miles northeast of the Communist capital. The ensuing scramble lasted only eleven minutes ("It seemed like eight hours," says Olds) and ranged from 9,000 ft. down to a scant 100 ft. above the deck...
Carrier-based Navy jets screeched through MIG-cluttered skies to hit the MIG base at Kep, northeast of Hanoi, with 250-lb. bombs and cluster bombs that spray thousands of lethal metal fragments. In two raids, they scored moderate-to-heavy damage to the run way, control tower and oil-storage tanks, but apparently caught few, if any, MIGs in their hardstands; an orange cloud of billowing smoke was visible al most 20 miles away. Flying out of bases in Thailand, a dozen Air Force Phantom jets then scorched the new MIG base at Hoa Lac, damaged or destroyed...