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...World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with complex weather-probing devices...
...Sunday driver tends to minimize the difficulties of the crowded highway because he himself is at the wheel, in control of his own destiny, the air traveler often exaggerates his peril. He has put the responsibility for his life into the hands of others-pilot, ground controllers, even weathermen-and his unease is understandable. When word of a crash hits the headlines, he inevitably asks himself the question he has asked so many times before: "Is flying really safe...
Warm Water or Jet Stream. But by week's end the Pacific High was knitting itself together again and West Coast weathermen were trying to spot the original cause of the trouble. Some of them blamed the jet stream, the belt of high-altitude wind that blows around the planet in mid-latitudes. It has been unusually swift this winter, reaching speeds of 150 m.p.h., and has crossed the U.S. in an unusual pattern, curving down from western Alaska to Southern California and then slanting up to Chicago. It may have had some influence on low-altitude weather...
...reports from the planes came in, Puerto Rico braced itself. So did the Bahamas and Florida. But like many an adventuress, Flora had an eye for demagogues, finally curved toward the western arm of Hispaniola. Broadcasting to Haiti, the poverty-stricken Negro nation ruled by Dictator Francois Duvalier, U.S. weathermen issued urgent warnings: "This is a dangerous hurricane ... all precautions should be taken...
...bits on radio command. Some 65 miles above the Atlantic, the water released by the explosion spread into a giant, sun-splashed cloud of ice crystals. Below, on the earth's surface, a network of radars and cameras traced the course of the cloud, gathering data for weathermen...