Word: parching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since the atmosphere is an ecological container analogous to a Gemini capsule, any major change in the weather at one place is bound to affect the whole worldwide weather system. To destroy a typhoon threatening Kyushu might deprive a drought-ridden corner of India of needed rain or even parch Eastern Europe. To melt the icecap would almost certainly inundate much of the U.S. seaboard. Thus the masters of controlled weather would have to make sticky international and intranational decisions about which areas would get the good effects and which...
Although it cannot prevent the frequent droughts that parch the high plains, the Weather Bureau has learned their meteorological causes and, to a degree, how to predict them. Like most major weather events in mid-latitudes, they can be blamed on the planetary wind that circulates around the temperate zone at high altitude. Its general motion is west to east, but it often veers to the north or south in great horizontal waves. In the bends of the waves are "ridges" of high pressure and "troughs" of low pressure, which affect the movement of the winds on the earth...