Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Anderson attributed Harvard's error-filled play to the players' over-excitement, Eckert noted that the weather also contributed to the frenzied atmosphere...
...collaboration between radar developers and storm chasers was immensely productive. It led to the NEXRAD (or Next Generation Radar) system, which the National Weather Service is currently installing nationwide. Already NEXRAD has helped extend the lead time for tornado warnings from three to eight minutes, on average. Sometimes the warning comes even earlier. Last month weather forecasters in Little Rock, Arkansas, called a tornado warning for communities in the Ozark Mountains a full 35 minutes before the twister showed up, giving people who lived in trailer homes time to scurry to friends' basements for safety...
...meteorologists to Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas during May and June--peak tornado season in that part of the country. Every few days for nearly 10 weeks, chase teams piled into planes, vans and cars equipped with every measuring device imaginable--satellite positioning systems, state-of-the-art radar, rooftop weather stations--and raced hundreds of miles to catch up with the storms deemed likely to generate twisters...
...then tornadoes have long been known for their capricious behavior. The same twists of wind that can derail trains and rip up pavement can be surprisingly gentle. Says National Weather Service meteorologist Donald Burgess: "I've seen a phonograph record driven through a telephone pole, and the record wasn't broken. I've seen a fridge thrown several hundred yards, while glasses on a nearby table weren't touched." Last month Betty Lou Pearce, a 64-year-old clerk from Pilot, North Carolina, hid from a tornado in her bathtub and moments later found herself sliding into the woods...
...risks, but she is the innocent bystander in this case. PAM STONE Calgary, Alberta What parents in their right mind would let a seven-year-old drive a car across the continent, never mind fly an airplane the same distance? This whole tragedy shocks and angers me. The reported weather conditions at the Cheyenne, Wyoming, airport were obviously unsuitable for Jessica's plane to take off. I obtained my pilot's license two years ago, when I was 17, and I know when and, more important, when not to go flying. In the aborted takeoff from Cheyenne, the most logical...