Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move outdoors as soon as the temperature hits 45 or 50," McInnis said yesterday. "But you know this New England weather--it may snow tomorrow." Until the mercury does climb, McInnis must conduct his daily two-hour workouts in the hazy confines of the Cage...
...Hand. In Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Lois Mitchell 94, decided to take up horseback riding again, explained that the unusually warm winter weather interfered with her skating...
Weak Westerlies. The mid-latitude westerlies, which normally blow across the country toward New England, were comparatively feeble this year. Their weakness allowed cold air to sweep down unchecked from Canada, keeping warm winds away from the western states and bringing them abnormally cold and stormy weather...
...Weather Bureau refuses to say whether the winters of the U.S. as a whole are getting warmer or colder, or what effect sunspots have on them. It suspects that a cold cycle may be in the making, but it is not sure yet. "Come back in 400 years," said Forecaster Ivan Tannehill. "We'll have all the answers then about sunspots and cycles...
...thing all meteorologists are agreed about: in spite of a widely held popular notion, man's tinkering with atomic energy has nothing to do with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...