Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow, the temperature dropped to 24° below zero, a record for that day. That was only one of the 70 low-temperature records broken from Washington State to Illinois on Thursday, the first official day of winter, as an arctic front swept in the coldest stretch of December weather in more than 50 years...
...planes skidded off the icy runway. Police reported more than 100 jackknifed tractor trailers, and by midweek the city of Dallas, where the temperature dropped to 11°, had come to a virtual standstill as government offices and businesses stayed closed. "I'm a native Texan, and this weather has just bamboozled me," said Welder Bobby Labar...
...National Weather Service in Washington, D.C., offers cautious consolation to those fearful of the months to come. "You would have to go back to the winter of 1977 to see one outbreak after another of record-breaking temperatures," said Long-Range Forecaster Donald Gilman. "The odds are against it." But a Chicago department-store sales clerk has her own fatalistic interpretation of the abnormally cold weather: "This is the payback for the little baby winter we had last year...
...transplanted Canadians concede that they are still learning the local mentality. A restyled regional weather map, for example, had to be quickly scrapped in favor of a national one. Explains O'Sullivan: "One of the attractions of living here is gloating about how all your friends up North are freezing." To help ease the transition, the owners elevated Columnist Lynn Ashby, who is probably Houston's best-known newspaperman, to the new post of editor, overseeing the opinion pages. Says Ashby: "The city has badly needed a public discussion of issues. I do not ask people to agree...
...paper is a tabloid in spirit, though not in actual size: it emphasizes crime, sex, sports and weather, and devotes about half of each front page to local news. Combat in the Middle East got prominent play last week, but the paper was almost devoid of serious stories about politics or Government in Washington, and the results of Japan's elections were reported back on page 10. The business section depends heavily on wire-service copy and emphasizes consumers rather than industry and finance; the feature section resembles a traditional women's page, with stories about office parties...