Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia in handling heavy field pieces. Thanks to the assiduousness of the New England diarists the student of Cape Breton meteorology will find in these journals, a wealth of information on the wind, weather, and rainfall for the duration...
Weatherman Colton's crash made citizens conscious of a new profession. Before airplanes, kites and balloons took weather recording instruments aloft in out-of-the-way places. But kites require wind, balloons not too much wind; both are unusable in bad weather; both have been scrapped except for one kite-station in Ellendale, N. Dak. In July 1931, Weather Bureau stations in Chicago, Cleveland and Dallas let the first U. S. contracts to aviators for weather observation. Omaha and Atlanta have been added to the list. A weather plane goes up once a week in Fairbanks, Alaska...
...taking its temperature. The three operations were being recorded by three minutely moving pencil arms on a cylinder revolving once every four hours. As he had done nearly every morning for more than six months, Pilot Colton would give his notes and the box (an aerometeorograph) to the Weather Bureau representative on the ground, collect his fee which depended on the height his instruments showed (nothing below...
...With his hand frozen to the stick, he rode the wind into a suburban street, ripped into telephone wires, stripping the plane's wings. The fuselage dropped lightly to the ground. Pilot, notes and aerometeorograph were undamaged. Next dawn he was at work again above Chicago, since the Weather Bureau lets its airplane observation contracts on condition that pilots have two planes with instruments always ready...
...been under discussion for some time, and is to be carried out in conjunction with the newly-formed committee of Harvard professors in charge of faculty contributions to the Cambridge unemployment relief fund. A unique feature of the affair is the provision for rain checks" in case inclement weather prevents observation...