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...past 45 years. The task was laborious and expensive. Weather Bureau files, records of Allied Governments, all available ship logs were combed to reconstruct the temperature and pressure at 1300 GMT (3 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time) every day since 1899. The observations of peacetime German and Italian weathermen went into the maps...
...Weathermen would have liked to go back even further, but data was lacking...
Candidates for military weathermen must not only be bright but of unusually firm character-an Air Forces meteorologist must stick by his forecasts in spite of severe pressure from action-minded tacticians...
...covered with warm air and fog like a blanket-a blanket with a hole in it, for there were the usual December snows in the Colorado Rockies. All U.S. weathermen could say was: "If there is any good explanation for such weather at this time of the year, we'd like to have it." The ancients would not have been at such a loss. They would probably have seen in it an omen of world-shaking events...
Within 24 hours this Arctic fist (to weathermen, a "Polar Continental Air Mass") produced two disastrous crashes; 34 men & women died...