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...Weatherman. Since the first rickety air conditioners were put on the market* just 20 years ago, great strides have been made. Noise has been virtually eliminated, and the late models can serve up any kind of indoor weather desired-dry, humid, warm or cold. General Electric engineers are trying to bring a still more revolutionary device, the "heat pump," whose workings have long been known to science, down to a popular price. G.E.'s heat pump is little bigger than a large refrigerator; at present, it still costs more than $3,000 installed. Driven by electricity, using no fuel...
People who want to plan picnics may never have a good word to say for the weatherman, but nonetheless he is making progress. In the current Scientific Monthly, Meteorologist Jerome Namias of the U.S. Weather Bureau explains an improved method for general weather forecasting over longer & longer periods...
...isotherms (i.e., lines of equal temperature) shift northward on the weatherman's maps, the northern limits of warmth-loving crops move northward, too. In eastern Canada, cereals can be grown 100 miles farther north than ever before. The change is due partly to better varieties and better cultivation methods, but partly to milder Canadian climate. Southern Ontario is already experimenting with cotton...
...Korea's climate. A southern Illinois coal-mine owner asked-and got -information on how to adjust a barometer for use in his mine. Among Youle's most appreciative fans are the personnel of Chicago's U.S. Weather Bureau, grateful for someone who appreciates the weatherman and who knows how to handle critics when forecasts go wrong. Said one weather official: "He makes a real, honest effort to understand weather forecasting and to put it over...
Family Act. Youle admits that he was as stifi and nervous as any amateur during his first few appearances as a TV weatherman. But his wife Jeanne and his brother Bruce got to work on him, and "between the two of them, they hammered me into something." Now, one of Youle's local shows includes his brother (for commercials) and his wife (for family chatter). When the Youles went off on vacation last month, even his 60-year-old mother got into the act, substituting for Jeanne by reminiscing about young Clint and old Chicago...