Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the weather conditions will probably be the same: rainy and sloppy, the conditions that are supposed to cripple Harvard's precision short-passing attack. But there are any number of different elements...
With a top speed of under 600 m.p.h. (v. 1,800 m.p.h. for the F-lll), the stubby, single-seat craft cannot even fly all-weather combat missions. What the Corsair does have, however, is almost twice the range (4,000 miles) and twice the bomb capacity (20,000 Ibs.) of any light attack jet that is currently in the U.S. arsenal...
...four inches of snow fell on Boston yesterday, said Howard Rexroad of the U.S. Weather Bureau...
Heavy spring rains affected fruit formation, hailstorms bruised fruit that had formed, and cold weather grounded the bees that must pollinate some fruits. Explains University of California Pomologist James A. Beutel: "Spring temperatures remained below 60°, which is too cold for good cross-pollination. Bees won't fly unless the temperature is above...
Because of the weather and its complications, harvest yields have slumped in almost every variety of California fruit. Bartlett-pear output is off two-thirds, to an estimated 104,000 tons this year. Apples will be down from last year's 297,000 tons harvested to about 192,000 tons. Peaches have slipped from 839,000 tons to 690,000 tons. Grapes, of which California produces 90% of the national total, will be off about 18% this year, to 2,800,000 tons. The weather did more than merely slow fruit formation. Peaches ripened as much as three weeks...