Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright, square cloud in an isolated position about 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas (see cut). Weathermen had no previous reports of such a formation. They looked up the records and found that this peculiar cloud had moved northeastward and raked Oklahoma with four tornadoes. When future weather satellites take to space, one mission will be to watch for clouds of this sort and warn against them before they start doing damage...
...Force's Air Weather Service considers even relatively harmless clouds important because they may hamper military operations. Aside from the obvious need to know the weather over potential targets, the airmen would like a precise picture of the weather en route in all missions. The aerial refueling of bombers requires clear, smooth air, and the all-seeing eyes of Tiros can tell bombers and tankers where to make their rendezvous...
Clouds also show by their patterns and shapes what motions of atmosphere are stirring up the weather. Tiros I took pictures of spiraling cloud systems reaching from Alaska to Southern California. Over Argentina, it showed clouds that traced the location of the high-altitude jet stream of the Southern Hemisphere. Meteorologists were surprised to learn from Tiros I that great, swirling cyclonic systems thousands of miles apart are sometimes connected by filaments of cloud...
Neph Analysis. The operational successors of Tiros I will probably revive a 19th century method of weather prediction called "neph analysis" (nephos-Greek for cloud). Weathermen in Antarctica will welcome satellite cloud pictures to tell them whether it is safe for a supply plane to start from New Zealand. The Indian Ocean, where few ships or airplanes pass, will be watched by neph analysis for juvenile typhoons...
Tech Ops is even doing something about the weather. "The trouble now," explains Tech Ops' President Frederick C. Henriques, 43, "is that you call up the Weather Bureau and receive a forecast of 'fair and warm' only to look out the window and find it's raining. That's because there is now a six-hour lag between forecasts." To cut weather forecasts to only a 20-minute lag around the nation, Tech Ops has joined with United Aircraft to develop a semi-automatic weather forecasting network for the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Agency...