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...most of its fission products were carried into the stratosphere, from which they will fall gradually over several years, covering a broad zone around the Northern Hemisphere. If the fireball touched the ground, its local fallout would seriously contaminate a cigar-shaped region many hundreds of miles downwind. U.S. weathermen calculated that the north winds blowing just after the Soviet test would carry local fallout southward into Soviet Russia down to the latitude of Leningrad...
Scientists could only observe and record the pattern of devastation, and pile up data against the day when they may learn how to trick a hurricane into sub mission. One thing the weathermen could claim credit for now: their accurate, timely alarm. Carla did enormous property damage, perhaps a billion dollars' worth, but took few lives. The well-warned people of coastal Louisiana and Texas had fled to safety in the greatest mass exodus in U.S. history. Only a comparative few were killed. There was no mass tragedy as when Hurricane Audrey flooded Cameron, La., in 1957 and killed...
Patterns & Shapes. During its electronic lifetime, Tiros I photographed away much of the atmosphere's privacy. On May 19, for instance, the camera pictured a bright, square cloud in an isolated position about 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas (see cut). Weathermen had no previous reports of such a formation. They looked up the records and found that this peculiar cloud had moved northeastward and raked Oklahoma with four tornadoes. When future weather satellites take to space, one mission will be to watch for clouds of this sort and warn against them before they start doing damage...
Neph Analysis. The operational successors of Tiros I will probably revive a 19th century method of weather prediction called "neph analysis" (nephos-Greek for cloud). Weathermen in Antarctica will welcome satellite cloud pictures to tell them whether it is safe for a supply plane to start from New Zealand. The Indian Ocean, where few ships or airplanes pass, will be watched by neph analysis for juvenile typhoons...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 9--The United States may soon give its weathermen an orbiting observation station 400 miles in space...