Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some reasons: unseasonably warm weather in many parts of the country, Sunday selling by major department stores in New York City and elsewhere in the East, and two extra shopping weekdays (29, v. 27 last year). The extended hours and a heady final sales surge combined to turn what could have been a disappointing Christmas into at least a moderately merry one, from Sears to Saks...
Meanwhile, the blight of fair weather in the West has proved to be a bonanza for ski areas in the Northeast. These areas are operating at near capacity as vacationers switch to New England and upstate New York. To cap their good luck, last Wednesday some ski areas in the Northeast were hit by a near blizzard...
Classes meeting during reading period will go on despite the storm warnings, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday. "Harvard has never canceled classes because of the weather...
...calculate a "degree day" the average temperature of the day is subtracted from 65 degrees, a figure which the National Weather Service has established as a base line. The number of degree days over this year from mid-June to mid-November...
Although degree days are generally estimated by averaging the high and the low temperature of the day and then subtracting. Vacha said the University's system is more accurate than those of the National Weather Service because its averages are based on hourly temperature readings from a monitoring station on top of the Science Center...