Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor was in irascible mood last week, perhaps because of the bleak weather in Austria which kept him indoors. Incessantly he telephoned not only Mrs. Simpson but various people in England. At 1 a. m. the Buckingham Palace operator was told from Schloss Enzesfeld to put on the wire Major Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse of King George...
...Washington last week U. S. Weather Bureau officials cautiously told newshawks that they were having good luck with "air-mass analysis," a new weather forecasting technique which consists of a vertical examination of atmospheric conditions rather than a horizontal survey at Earth's surface. On five days during the previous week the Washington office received upper air data from Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, where small sounding balloons were sent up with radio-meteorographs. These little gadgets contain a thermometer, hygrometer (humidity recorder), barometer, shortwave radio transmitter and batteries, encased in a streamlined aluminum shell, the whole weighing...
...mass theory holds that great masses of cold air and others of warm air rolling over the earth make weather by their interaction, causing rain, fog, snow. When a "cold front" slides over a "warm front" the air at the boundary is twisted and violent disturbances are likely to occur. The Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort...
...lines in 1932. The late Harris M. Hanshue, then president of Western Air Express, found the Krick forecasts 96.1% accurate, estimated that they saved him $35,000 in one year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict, a day or so in advance, the hour when rain will start or stop, when fog will roll in or lift, is reputed to bring him fat fees from cinema coffers...
Everyone was aware by last week that the U. S. had had a freakish winter. Easterners had warm, muggy weather with almost no snow. The greatest floods on record poured down the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. California orange-growers were hit by a cold snap such as they had not known for years. Dr. Krick bobbed up with a pat explanation for these phenomena. This 31-year-old meteorologist, who was a stockbroker's assistant and once a piano accompanist, predicted last September that Southern California was in for a cold, wet winter. He believes that, although the boundaries...