Word: weatherization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Love This Crowd: Just goes to prove what a little good weather...
Team members attributed the loss in part to weather conditions and holiday traffic that prevented one of their strongest players from getting to Columbus. Second-seeded Girome S. Bono '88, a senior master--the highest national rank--spent two days waiting at Logan Airport to fly to the match site...
...Massachusetts and the federal government spent more than $11 million to completely renovate the underground subway station. In addition to providing subway riders with expanded train platforms, the MBTA also improved surface transit by restructuring the bus stop area along Western Avernue. Bus riders now enjoy benches and weather protection in Central Square...
...thing, the little-known phenomenon his model was predicting had not been witnessed since the mid- 1970s. By last summer, however, Barnett's forecast was borne out by a "monstrous" 7 degreesF plunge in ocean surface temperatures off * equatorial South America. The drop heralded the arrival of a mysterious weather pattern called La Nina, which brings unusually cold temperatures to the eastern Pacific. La Nina has since swept to the center of the climatic stage recently vacated by its better known heat-producing sibling El Nino...
...distinguish the "cold event" from El Nino, "the boy" or "Christ child," so named because it usually makes its appearance near Christmastime. Marked by an influx of warm water and winds from the western Pacific, El Nino is known to bring heavy winter rains to Peruvian deserts and warm weather to the U.S. West Coast. The two systems make up the extremes of a giant meteorological system called the Southern Oscillation that links the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific. Normally the system functions as a giant heat pump, distributing energy from the equator to the higher latitudes through storms...