Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After two years in which the sun gave off less heat than usual, it has now returned to normal. It is hoped to be able to learn the periods of fluctuations in the sun's heat in order to make "long distance" weather predictions. Attempts of that nature are already going forward in Chile.-Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, Smithsonian Institution...
Such widespread interest has been aroused in the eclipse that several colleges will close and take their student body in chartered trains into the eclipse path. The financial value of the eclipse is also evidenced by the fact that weather insurance has been taken out at Middletown, Conn., where the largest number of astronomical parties will be located...
...will take place early in the morning, which is unfavorable, since the sun will be close to the horizon so that all light will come through the earth's atmosphere, at a great angle. Moreover, the region over which it passes is none too likely to have clear weather for observation purposes. At the hours of the eclipse and at the time of the year in which it takes place, the chance of clear weather at Buffalo is only 27%. The chance at Port Huron is 36%. The chance farther eastward in the belt of totality improves, with New Haven...
...good astronomers are burning candles to their Saints that the weather may be clear on the morning...
...after the report of the Air Mail fatality came news of a terrible accident at the Croydon airdrome in London. A De Haviland passenger airplane, carrying a pilot and seven passengers, had scarcely risen into the air on its way to Paris, when gusty weather caused trouble and a nose dive carried the plane straight into the ground from a height of two or three hundred feet. As the craft struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot...