Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact if this unusually cold weather keeps up, there should be skiing in the North right through April and May. The curtain to the ski season falls sometime in the middle of June at the last outpost of the sport in New England, Tuckerman's Ravine...
First part of an airplane to ice up in heavy weather is its windshield. It usually becomes opaque as a bathroom window long before wings and propeller begin to take on ice. Standard flying-field crack to pilots complaining about this phenomenon is "Get yourself a windshield wiper." Last week this ironic wheeze became reasonable advice...
Last week the new chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer (TIME, Dec. 26), contemplating with satisfaction his new scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...
Said gigantic Defense Witness Earle (7 ft. 6 in.): "I just said, looking up at him, 'How's the weather up there?' But [Wadlow] didn't answer...
...Fair weather tomorrow and colder temperatures are predicted by the weather bureau for Saturday with a steadily rising thermometer on Sunday...