Word: weather
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...pipe froze in the nine degree morning weather,” said Director of Computer Services Franklin M. Steen. “[It] came in from the frozen outside of the building. There are safeguards against such freezing, which apparently did not work...
UNDER THE WEATHER...
...beat--is a regional entity that plays midway between Boston and nowhere. The Colts own the game's most heralded star, quarterback Peyton Manning--but also have owners whose local loyalty is suspect. The surprising Chargers, featuring the game's most unheralded star, running back LaDainian Tomlinson, are fair-weather favorites, though that's never a bad bet in San Diego. And the Philadelphia Eagles, with their own legions of long-suffering devotees, seem capable of winning their first championship since...
...David Thompson pursued on of the first careers he considered, he might today be a guitarist in an alternative-rock band. But Thompson, 35, became intrigued with climate and weather, and just three years after he enrolled for graduate study at the University of Washington, he and his faculty adviser, John M. Wallace, published an attention-grabbing paper that announced the discovery of the Arctic Oscillation, an important new cog in the earth's climate machine...
...latitudes of the northern hemisphere. The AO encircles the whole of the Arctic and also extends from the sea's surface to the stratosphere, an ethereal region of the atmosphere some seven to 30 miles above the earth that forecasters thought had little bearing on day-to-day weather. Thanks to the discovery of the AO, that view of the stratosphere is changing. Among other things, scientists studying the AO have connected sudden warmings of the stratosphere to outbreaks of wintry weather in Europe and the U.S. Somehow, scientists think, these spikes in stratospheric temperatures weaken the winds that swirl...