Word: weather
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...Moon. What is enticing the tourists farther afield is not the search for better weather. All the islands of the southernmost state- enjoy a year-round balmy climate (average mean temperature: 75°). And, because of the prevailing northeast trade winds, the southwestern coasts of all of its islands (and not just Oahu) are nearly rain-free all year round...
...crops, citrus growers in southern Israel have asked the government to allocate more water for irrigation. But water is in short supply throughout the country, and the government is not likely to give more than mere sympathy. Nor can the fruit farmers expect much of a break in the weather. Israeli Meteorologist Leo Krown has predicted that through January, local rainfall will be below normal -and the Brooklyn-born scientist speaks with authority. In each of the past 16 years, he reports in the Journal of Applied Meteorology, his new method for long-range winter rainfall forecasts for the eastern...
...records. They had only been kept since 1924, but since then, at least, Bedouins had been right. Moderate rainfall in October was almost always followed by an exceptionally dry winter. Dry Octobers generally preceded three-month periods of above-normal rainfall. "I felt that if we could understand the weather circulation in October," he says, "it could possibly tell us what was going to happen...
Using the new meteorological data, which weather balloons have been transmitting regularly since 1950, Krown began a study of the October low-pressure areas (troughs) and high-pressure areas (ridges) that he believed affected winter weather in Israel. Gradually a pattern emerged...
...right," he says, "there ought to be similar findings at similar latitudes." The latitudes he is talking about are between 30° and 50° north of the equator, which includes the southern part of the U.S., where both agriculture and business could benefit from more accurate long-range weather forecasting...