Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After lo, these many years, most meteorologists remain baffled by a couple of apparently simple questions: "Why does it rain?" and "Why does it snow...
...small ice crystals. Since ice has an attraction for water, these droplets grow at the expense of the cloud's smoke-sized water droplets. Eventually the cloud turns to snowflakes that are big and heavy enough to fall through the air and hit the earth as snow or rain. All this can sometimes be made to happen by releasing materials (such as silver iodide smoke) that encourage ice crystals to form in a moderately cold cloud. But this is an artificial process; in nature some clouds give snow and rain while others just as cold...
...according to the Economic Gazette, cracks began to appear in the institute's walls, and panels slid off the facade. Workmen hastily shored up the damaged section. Then, last month the right wing of the institute collapsed. Investigators belatedly discovered that the builders had forgotten to install drainpipes. Rain seeped into the walls and pillars, froze solid in a cold spell and turned to water again in a thaw, thus bringing down the wing in a cascade of bricks, concrete and glass...
...traffic controller hunched over his radarscope one morning last week as he nursed Trans World Airlines' Super Constellation Flight 266 (from Dayton and Columbus) through rain, sleet and snow toward New York's La Guardia Airport. At 10:35 an unexpected blip slid across his scope, and he picked up his microphone to call Flight 266 with unaccustomed urgency...
According to the AAA, the snow forecast for early this morning will make the Massachusetts Turnpike particularly dangerous. The weather bureau at Logan Airport predicted a four inch accumulation beginning between 3 and 4 a.m. with rain or sleet following...