Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard rains slashed in horizontal sheets across St. Louis one night last week, and radio stations dutifully carried the Weather Bureau's heavy-thunderstorm warnings. The weather was still foul when the city went to bed. Two hours-past midnight, it worsened destructively. Without warning, a tornado, bad weather's traveling explosion, roared down upon the town...
...elaborate system of drifting and anchored buoys that will report automatically and do for the ocean what weather observation stations do for the atmosphere over the land...
...jets had scrambled into the sky for a look at an intruder inside Russia's southern border. It was, in fact, an unarmed, four-engined U.S. Air Force C-130 transport carrying 17 men. In flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught...
Forward in the cockpit, Captain Albert H. DeWitt, 59, wheeled the big Electra on a lazy clockwise arc into LaGuardia's landing pattern, took position two minutes behind a Northeast Airlines DC-3, got his instructions from the LaGuardia tower. The weather was foul - a 400-ft. ceiling, two-mile visibility, wind eight miles an hour, freezing rain-but hardly challenging to a 28,000-hour veteran (40 hours in Electras) like DeWitt. Neither was the approach from the northeast over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped...
Nationally, for the time being, the cloud ceilings for such flights were raised 600 feet and visibility requirements doubled. This was intended to give pilots more leeway in landings when they come off instruments and into open weather...