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Does it feel warmer lately? It should, for according to John H. Conover, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Research Fellow at Blue Hills Observatory, the average winter temperature in New England has risen three and one-half degrees during the past 100 years...
...Warmer weather in the last tow days has melted away the prospects for good skiing in New England this weekend. Only North Conway, New Hampshire, Charlemont, Massachusetts, and Mohawk Mountain, Connecticut, report fair or fair to good conditions...
...much warmer sound," said Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, speaking of the Big Three communique on Germany. But it did not have a very decisive sound. Its most important note was a flat announcement that the Big Three would consider any attack on Western Germany or on Berlin as an attack on themselves. This had in fact been Western policy for two years, but the black-on-white announcement heartened West Germany...
...cold is cold enough? Langmuir and Schaefer found by careful experiment that the motes form at -39° C. (38° F.). This explained some types of rain. Certain clouds rise high enough to be cooled to that temperature. Ice motes form, find their way into warmer parts of the cloud, where they grow into snowflakes and fall as snow or rain. "Why not help things along with some dry ice?" asked Langmuir & Schaefer...
...records gives clues about the high atmosphere. The waves that make the 160-mile jump experience various vicissitudes. In the warm air near the earth they move fast. Then they slow down gradually as the air grows colder. Passing through the stratosphere (temp. - 70° F.) they hit a warmer layer of air 30 to 35 miles above the earth which turns them back down to the microphones...