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...tomorrow," declared Manhattan's WOR weatherman, "will be cloudy and overcast." Then he added, "or, as the French would put it, triste...
...York City's blizzard of '47 (TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...
...trouble, apparently, was threefold: 1) inadequate equipment and research; 2) failure to keep up with new meteorological techniques abroad; 3) scientific inertia at home. Congress, which keeps the U.S. Weather Bureau on a starvation allowance, was guilty on the first count. But the official weatherman had to take some of the blame...
...Weatherman Reichelderfer contends that, with all their brilliant ideas, the Europeans have not advanced forecasting directly: "Their discoveries did not point the way to techniques in forecasting that would distinguish heavy snowstorms of this kind that swing inland [e.g., the recent storm] from those that remain...
...Forecaster Grady Norton spelled out his suspicion. Aerial seeding of the hurricane with dry ice might very well, he claimed, have diverted the storm from its course (500 miles out at sea, headed for Bermuda). The joint Army-Navy-General-Electric experiment (an attempt to break up the storm), Weatherman Norton explained, might have been at least partly responsible for the storm's abrupt left face and subsequent heavy march through Florida and Georgia...