Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midwest, temperatures were normal, but precipitation was not. The drought that plagued crops all last year is continuing, with little snow on the ground and low moisture content in the soil. Winter wheat needs the snow both for protection from cold and, come the spring thaw, for water. Even the Mississippi is hitting new low-water marks. The Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg has dredged the river at 18 locations this month. Still the river banks south of Memphis are a graveyard of grounded barges, and captains are lightening their loads by as much as a third to avoid...
...Rockies, where the dastardly high is centered, have also remained especially dry. The best snow at many ski resorts in the region is manmade. At Colorado's Crested Butte, in fact, there is a special type of man-made snow. One day last week resort operators there enlisted a band of Ute Indians to do a snow dance. Sure enough, there was an unexpected snowfall by morning...
Throughout the West, unseasonably high temperatures are making even artificial snow hard to keep and migratory birds hard to get rid of. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, golf courses have been plagued by hundreds of Canada geese, apparently deceived by the balmy weather into thinking they have reached Mexico. "It's wall-to-wall geese," says Bruce Waldo, the parks and recreation director...
...grim gray cold that assaulted delegates as they left Geneva's snow-covered Palais des Nations matched their spirits. After a week of deliberations, the United Nations-sponsored conference on the future of Namibia (South West Africa) had ended in acrimony. South Africa, which has administered the former German territory since 1920, once again rejected a Western proposal to end the civil war that has wrenched mineral-rich Namibia for more than a decade. Concluded Britain's Brian Urquhart, the U.N. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, who ran the conference: "A great opportunity was missed...
Many Midwestern farmers, still suffering from the crop losses caused by the summer drought, now gaze forlornly over their bare, frozen land. In Minnesota, where about 5 in. of snow should have fallen by now, only a light powder covers the earth. Says Ed Grady of the state's farm bureau: "Our concern is that the frost may penetrate the ground more deeply than it would with a snow cover," thus damaging crops planted this winter. "This is about as dry as I can remember," observes Eldon Merklin, an Oklahoma farmer who planted 1,200 acres of wheat last...