Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-range radiation rays, says Menzel, which usually fly off from the earth, would be stopped by the cloud and retained. Thus the weather would be come warmer, the proper weather for an ice age. More water would evaporate from the earth and fall at the poles as snow, compress itself into ice and start moving as a glacier...
...claims Menzel, the weather would have to be just right. If it became too cold, then too little snow would fall to form ice. On the other hand, a spell of unusually warm weather would melt the ice packs...
Christmas Day, 1948 will be "unpleasant with rain or snow," and New Englanders may as well face it. Abe Weatherwise says so. For a century and a half, the meteorologist of the Old Farmer's Almanac has been predicting the year-round weather, and for all its radar and radio balloons, the U.S. Weather Bureau has never been able to woo his fans away. His forecast for the coming winter is a moderately pesky...
...Winter of 1948-49 will not be as cold on the whole as the winter just past. However .. . there will be frequent storms of rain and sleet as well as snow which will create unusually icy conditions...
...forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen-dorph, how often Abe Weatherwise has the last laugh...