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Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm...
What makes the business highly profitable is that a private weatherman needs nothing but brains to start, and has a free, ready-made research staff in the U.S. Weather Bureau. To launch Los Angeles' National Weather Institute in 1945, Weatherman Edward B. Derr merely paid $40 for a set of 15,000 surplus weather maps going back to 1905. By using the old maps and current Weather Bureau bulletins to chart climatic patterns for his customers, and by using his weather-wise head in the bargain, he now grosses well over $1,000,000 annually, has a staff...
...some, Weatherman Krick was merely lucky, but he and his colleagues insist that their fast-growing young business, financed by industry's millions, is making great strides in the art of weather forecasting. In Hartford, Travelers Insurance Co.'s Meteorologist Dr. Thomas F. Malone has been working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants...
...Poland he is a longtime Stalinist timeserver named Jerzy Putrament. When Wladyslaw Gomulka broke with Moscow last October, Comrade Putrament was so enthusiastic in Gomulka's support that Pravda publicly rebuked him for saying that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from Socialism into anarchy, thus creating the danger of "Hungarian tragedies." He accused the young hotheads in the vanguard of Gomulka's national movement...
...find the jet stream the pilot flies in its general direction, which can be determined by the weatherman. When the "66" tells him that his drift angle is increasing, he knows that he is getting into the jet stream and is being carried along by it. When the drift angle reaches a maximum, he turns downstream until the drift angle falls to zero. Then he knows that he is flying in the center of the jet stream. If the stream curves, as it often does, the airplane can follow it by keep ing the drift angle at zero. When...