Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Weather Reports...
...automatic radio station, completed only two weeks ago, is the first device of its kind in the world. Built in a small wire-closed enclosure behind the main buildings, the station consists of a number of complicated (instruments which constantly check the weather conditions and send out radio signals to a receiving set on the top of the Observatory tower. When received on the tower, the signals are transmitted up on graphs, so that a permanent written record is available for government and research stations. The only thing Professor Brooks has to do is to see that the sending apparatus...
...tuning in station WIXFW at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, a radio fan may catch the signals sent down to earth by the radiosonde. Because upper air conditions are vital to air pilots, the Observatory has been getting help from the International Ice Patrol, the United States Weather Bureau, M. I. T., the Navy, and the Canadian, British, French, and Danish governments...
Although each ascent of a radiosonde costs as much as $30, they have proved invaluable for the air service, which can not get accurate and steady weather reports from the stratosphere in any other...
...result of more than 50 years of careful work, Blue Hill has weather records, which are, in the opinion of Professor Brooks, the most detailed in the United States. These include not only the open-scale instrumental charts and the three-times-a-day check readings of the instruments, but also a comprehensive record of the weather: the visibility, the precipitation and the cloud types and motions...