Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kansas City's twister, like all tornadoes, kicked out of a vicious thunderstorm. The U.S. Weather Bureau's radar showed it by early evening as the hooked tail on an egg-shaped thunderstorm blob moving northeastward across Kansas one day last week. At 6:30 p.m., as the Missouri city was settling down to supper, a storm-warning volunteer near Williamsburg, Kans., 70 miles southwest of the city, backstopped the radar. In the storm's ugly grey clouds, he telephoned, was a groping funnel. Ten minutes later, urged on by bulletins from three television and seven radio...
...week before Kansas City's disaster, 22 people died when a tornado struck Silverton, Texas. In the week after, so many twisters swept the Southwest that the normally restrained Weather Bureau found the situation "fantastic." One storm hit the small (pop. 207) town of Fremont, Mo. and demolished it, killing six and injuring 50. Seven others died in Missouri tornadoes the same day. At week's end, the U.S. Weather Bureau logged the highest one-day tornado count ever recorded in the U.S.: 50 twisters whirled across the West and Southwest, killing at least four more...
When spring comes the weather is much more pleasant and the teachers give us less homework...
...experts worry a lot about "concentrating mechanisms" that may keep fallout materials from being distributed evenly over the earth's surface. The U.S. Weather Bureau insists that winds and rainfalls give some areas (including the northern U.S.) a great deal more than their share of the global fallout. Biological concentration is even more disturbing. Grazing animals skim the fallout from large areas of grass, and it concentrates in their flesh and milk. Sea animals do the equivalent. Biologists fear that many such concentrating mechanisms may exist unsuspected. This is one reason why the U.S. Public Health Service is starting...
...weather will be fair this morning, with blue skies until the noon hour. Partly cloudy in the afternoon...