Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some suspect, Bergaust was the happy recipient of an Army leak, it was timely, for at week's end the Air Force was checking weather reports preparatory to launching its own IRBM, the Thor...
...recent years, the more prosperous of the villagers have taken to Florida as a comfortable spot in which to hide out for a few weeks during February, but they never really feel right about leaving, and none admits that the harsh weather is really intolerable...
...machine's forecasts do not pinpoint ground-level weather for any locality. They concern the behavior of the high-altitude waves, which have broad control over local ground weather. At present, says Dr. G. R. Cressman, head of the unit, the machine makes fine forecasts of upper-air weather for high-flying aircraft. For ground-level weather, it is not yet very good...
Since the war, U.S. meteorology had continued to expand explosively. All the armed services were demanding better forecasting and better knowledge of the atmosphere. Radars had proved fine weather-observing tools, showing up rain or snow 300 miles away. Rockets could photograph from above hundreds of thousands of square miles of weather, even entire hurricanes. Weather ships were stationed at sea; weather airplanes were flying into hurricanes...
...hopeful about human efforts to change the weather. He admits that cloud seeding with dry ice or silver iodide particles can coax rain out of a susceptible cloud, but he is not convinced that it can be done often enough to be valuable. Rossby believes that better long-range forecasting would probably be more valuable than attainable extra rain. A long-range forecast of a disastrous drought (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such as the one that is affecting much of the U.S. at present, could prevent much suffering...