Word: overcast
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...spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole crossing because of overcast, and Finisterre navigated the last 75 miles by Bermuda radio...
...radio to sun power, a small box-shaped unit containing silicon is plugged into the back. The unit absorbs sun rays and transforms them into electrical energy. Placed by a window or in a sunny place, it can gather and store enough energy to operate the radio even on overcast days. The radio will go on sale next month at $59.95, the sun unit...
While past-President Truman was generating heat in California, Presidential Hopeful Harriman was setting forth on a chilly, overcast morning in Mclntosh, Ala. (near the spot where New Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke...
Deadly Ceilometers. The Empire State is not the only man-made menace to migrating birds. Far worse are the ceilometer beams that measure the height of clouds above many airports. They are powerful searchlights that cast a spot of light on the base of the overcast so that an automatic instrument can calculate its height by triangulation. On migrating birds they have a terrible effect. Thousands of the birds, apparently confused by the glaring light, lose their bearings and fly into the ground or against low buildings. Last year 50,000 birds were killed in two nights at two Southern...
...mountain to my parachute. I got down into the bowl just as the chopper was finishing its first search of the area, flying at about 50 feet. He was way out near the main road, and I figured, there he goes, because the ground fire was thicker than the overcast." A burst of ground fire rocked the helicopter, but Lieut. Koelsch managed to keep it under control. "I figured he would surely back out," said Wilkins. "Then, by the Lord, he made another turn back into the valley a second time. It was the greatest display of guts...