Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold here in central New York State that for the first time since my 91-year-old grandfather began living with us, he won't talk about the weather...
...Looking ahead 30 days, the National Weather Service predicted continuing cold for about four-fifths of the nation-from the East Coast to a line roughly bisecting the Plains states and including a giant thumb jutting up from Texas as far as Idaho. The natural-gas shortage was still at crisis point. The economy was still shaken (see ENERGY and ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A further threat: surging floods if the snow and ice melt too quickly...
...National Weather Service reports that the "flood potential" is high in an area covering western New York and Pennsylvania and extending into most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio and the northeastern tip of Kentucky. Much of that region lies beneath a blanket of snow that is six inches or more thick. Says Herb Lieb, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It's like a great, frigid lake, ready to run during a sudden thaw. We could have the makings of some real flood disasters...
...weather gradually warmed last week, the first worrisome runoffs began flowing into the ice-clogged streams, raising the threat of flooding in some areas. In Washington, federal officials were already working on plans to provide shelter, food and medical care for stricken communities that could be hit by floods if a sudden thaw turned the runoffs into torrents...
...company, has begun shipping 2.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas to the fuel-starved U.S. through pipeline connections at Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros; the gas will have a price tag of more than $5 million. And with Florida's vegetable crops devastated by the winter weather, Mexico is shipping tomatoes in quantity to the U.S. from vast agribusiness farms below the border