Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weather Bureau has predicted variable clouds and gentle, southerly winds today with the high temperature in the middle 40's. Tonight will be cloudy and warmer...
...probing the continent. With good supply lines from its base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the U.S. in season flies some 7,500 men back and forth to the continent, plus thousands of tons of cargo. It has flown in prefabricated huts to protect its Antarctic team from the bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations. The reactors will not only pay for themselves through savings on fuel (which costs...
Waiting for that winter to fall once again and restrict their activities, scientists are losing no time in making the most of Antarctica's pleasant-for Antarctica-weather. Among their current projects...
...camp in Marie Byrd Land to study the strange magnetic ducts that arch through space and carry radio waves between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. > The U.S., Britain and Russia are leading a smooth-running Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, which is already working out plans for securing valuable weather data in the international "quiet sun" year in 1964-65. Expected to be of great help: the U.S. Tiros satellites...
...Antarctic does not start to warm up, as the Arctic does, before the sun rises in spring, would like to know whether the Antarctic ice will increase or shrink if the earth's climate gets warmer. Other areas to be explored are multitude-the ice sheet, weather, temperatures, winds, communications, geology...