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While we are doing our best to keep the typewriter from floating away as the waves swirl around the room, weatherman Dick "Cobber" Shorrock assures us that this is only a light early-fall shower. It seems that the monsoon season around Boston doesn't start until late winter. In the meantime several bright and penetrating suggestions have been made to alleviate the situation...
...bombers took off on schedule that February morning. By the time they began their target runs over Leipzig's aircraft plants, it was sparklingly clear. For five more days the skies around Leipzig were blue and the ground was blackened by Allied bombs. The Air Forces weatherman had been dead right...
...analogue. Head man in Britain is a professional army officer of 34 who studied at Caltech, now has on his staff one of his former professors. Their coordinated report is the first thing Major General Frederick L. Anderson, U.S. Deputy Chief of Air Operations, demands each morning. The head weatherman is also attached to the Supreme Allied Commander's headquarters and, in daily conferences with the British, contributes to the master report of Army, Navy and Air Forces experts for General Eisenhower and his staff...
...warmer." Was the U.S. Weather Bureau - after 75 years of cautious clichés - suffering a sudden May-madness? Dispatched to find out, Washington reporters met slight, affable Donald C. Cameron, 39, new chief forecaster for the Southeastern U.S. No whimsical amateur, but a Bureau veteran of 22 years, Weatherman Cameron knew exactly what he was about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They want to know how they're going to feel...
...above everything, farmers are utterly dependent on the weather. "Between spring and fall a fickle weatherman can give us a crop 15-25% below normal or a crop 15-25% above normal." This is one of the most arresting conclusions drawn from Food-that bad weather in 1944 would be an economic disaster of enormous magnitude...