Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singing Thing. Below, the rain and fog had driven Elizabeth's residents indoors. Eugene Alvator, home for an early dinner with his wife and children, heard "a singing thing." He walked to the door. The song ended in shocking crescendo; the crump of a crashing airplane, then the violent explosion of fuel tanks...
...midst of defending his Australian tennis championship last week, Dick Savitt found himself in a tight spot. He dropped the first two sets of his semifinal match with Aussie Ken McGregor, won the third set, and was leading 3-2 in the fourth when it began to rain. Play was stopped, and Savitt glowered at the weather as he stalked off the court...
...hostess planning a garden party finds little use for these forecasts. They do not say, for instance, whether it will rain in Little Rock two weeks from Tuesday. They merely predict whether the temperature during the period covered can be classed as "much above normal," "above normal," "normal," "below normal" or "much below normal," and whether the precipitation will be "light," "moderate" or "heavy...
Better Than Guessing. On this basis their accuracy is fairly good. Namias says that the five-day forecasts are "within one class" of being right about the temperature 80% of the time; the monthly forecasts are right 75% of the time. Rain and snow are much harder to predict than temperature is; the five-day forecasts are right about 40% to 50% of the time, and the monthly forecasts less than 40%. Even this low accuracy, however, is better than mere guessing based on "most likely" conditions for a given place and season...
...ability of University Meteorologist Wallace E. Howell to make rain is still being investigated by the City of New York, the "New York Times" revealed by inference last week. Howell was hired by New York City at $100 a day to make rain during the drought two years ago. Now the City is being sued for a total of $2 million by upstate New York farmers who claim the resultant downpours ruined their crops...