Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circles around the earth at high altitude in the North Temperate Zone. Its general direction is from west to east, but its flow is usually distorted into great horizontal waves 4,000 miles from side to side. The waves have the important function of mixing cold Arctic air with warm air from near the tropics. If the mixture did not exist, Canada would be much colder than it is and Cuba would be hotter...
...zigzag waves, it blew unusually fast; the jet stream, its fast-moving core, was clocked at 170 m.p.h. But the mixing effect of the wind was almost nil. The Arctic kept its cold air and grew colder and colder as its heat radiated into space, while the U.S. stayed warm. The port of Green Bay, Wis. was open for navigation on Dec. 29, the first time since 1877. New England had weather 15° to 18° above normal, and such notorious cold spots as Montana were mild...
...days later the wave was over the U.S. Cold air from Alaska swept to the Gulf of Mexico and mixed with warm, moist air there. Such mixing always causes meteorological fireworks. During Jan. 2-3, Florida and Cuba had one of the worst winter storms on record, with 70-mile gusts uprooting palm trees and drenching Havana hotels with salt spray. No sooner had the storm got out of the way than another formed over Texas and moved east. Snow fell in Fort Myers, southern Florida for the first time on record. Florida children were released from school to enjoy...
With his train of Weasels and Sno-Cats (special snow vehicles with spiked tracks), Fuchs had heavy going. The weather was warm for Antarctica, and the snow-bridges over the crevasses were weaker than when he pioneered the route to South Ice. Nine times his vehicles broke through the roofs of vast caves in the ice and had to be hauled out. Once a Sno-Cat was brought to the surface by fixing in the ice beneath it long sections of aluminum bridging to form an incline up which it could be drawn. Other troubles were heavy snowfalls and many...
...cells are bigger and more numerous. If he lives at three, miles altitude, he may have twice as much hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying substance, as an ordinary person. His heart, which is 20% bigger than normal, pumps an extra-large stream of extra-rich blood, keeping his hands forever warm, as Father Cobo so accurately noted...