Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rain. To prove it, he said he would make it rain in Tulsa within 72 hours after any day and hour that Gordon cared to name. Gordon amiably agreed to specify a time, reported the incident in his column. Within the designated 72 hours, it rained. The local U.S. Weather Bureau office had predicted that no rain at all would fall in Tulsa that...
...thoroughly parched by the drought that has afflicted much of the Midwest and West this year. In June and again in early July, the man telephoned Gordon and promised to make it rain. Both times Gordon listed the agreed-upon dates in his column, and both times, contrary to Weather Bureau predictions, rain fell within 72 hours...
...three-day span. This time Gordon told the local Associated Press man the story, and A.P. moved it to papers and radio stations all over the state. The eyes of Oklahoma were upon the skies as the first and second days passed without any rain, just as the Weather Bureau predicted. For the third day, the Weather Bureau forecast "a chance of light afternoon and evening thunder showers, with no more than one-quarter of an inch of rain...
People who got a good look at the sun's glowing corona during its recent eclipse may have seen faint veils of light trailing off into space. Appearing as harmless as thistledown, they were visible evidence of the sun's far-reaching violence. Stormy weather on the sun sometimes tosses out clouds of deadly particles, mostly protons, that can kill in a few minutes any humans riding in thin-walled spacecraft. So among the scientists who studied the corona were members of a new, specialized profession: solar meteorology. Their job is to learn to forecast solar weather...
While physicists are debating the cause of the flares, practical solar meteorologists are learning to identify solar weather conditions that may produce them. First, says Dr. James Van Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belt, a sunspot must be visible. A group of several sunspots is even more likely to produce a flare, but not all do. Often they fade away without a blowoff...