Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Typical U.S. Weather Bureau forecast...
...spring tornado season swirled into full blast on the Great Plains last week, such ominous warnings crackled constantly on TV and radio. And it was the proud boast of Meteorologist Donald C. House, head of the Weather Bureau's Severe Local Storm Center at Kansas City, that 55% of the bulletins were right on the button. Another 30% were near misses. Residents of "Tornado Alley" (the south central U.S.) were seldom surprised by unexpected twisters...
Despite the remarkable accuracy of its forecasts, the Weather Bureau is still not sure just why tornadoes occur. They strike out of thunderclouds that form when the temperature of the upper air drops some 3° every 300 ft. of altitude. But they appear in some thunderclouds and not in others where conditions seem the same...
...Crimson sailors made their first good showing of the year in light winds. On Saturday, spotty wind and fog forced postponement of four races. But on Sunday, in off-again, on-again winds, a Crimson team whose best performances had come in heavy weather, was able to slice six points from M.I.T.'s first-day ten-point lead...
...varsity baseball team was stopped cold over the weekend--by a rampaging weather...