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...These computers will one day direct the defense of North America by calculating the course, speed and altitude of approaching enemy planes, then firing guided missiles to intercept them. A 701 has gone to work for the Weather Bureau, and will attempt to make weather forecasting an exact science. Weathermen will feed into it hundreds of reports on rainfall, temperature, humidity, expect that the brain will be able to predict accurate weather for any place in the U.S. 48 hours in advance...
...Weather Bureau thinks that its jump-line detectors can be made in quantity for less than $100 each. Spotted through tornado areas in police stations and other always-open institutions, they should enable the weathermen to keep track of each jump-line as it moves crosscountry. Since the average speed of the tornado-triggering wave is only about about 35 m.p.h., the weatherman should have time to give plenty of warning...
...dawdling along off South Carolina, watched by airplanes and Weather Bureau radar and spinning northward at only four miles per hour. By Monday afternoon, Carol was captured by the planetary wind. It picked up her whirling mass and carried it north northeastward at 18 to 20 m.p.h. The weathermen, studying their charts, expected her to veer more sharply to the east and pass harmlessly east of Nantucket...
...will be to digest the weather information that was available just before last Nov. 6, when the bureau predicted fair weather for the U.S. Northeast-and a howling blizzard blew in off the sea. If the machine predicts correctly the unexpected wind-shift that made monkeys out of the weathermen, it will get a steady job with the bureau...
Weather Pen. Much of the world's weather is affected by the "jet-stream"-a narrow, wandering wind that blows at high altitude, often as fast as 200 m.p.h. (TIME, Oct. i, 1951). Weathermen have been keeping track of it with sounding balloons, but the process is slow and expensive. Last week Meteorologist R. E. Falconer of General Electric Research Laboratory told about an electrical gadget that can tell when the jet-stream comes within 200 miles of Schenectady. The gadget "feels" the air for positive or negative charges, then writes its findings with a pen on a moving...