Word: weathership
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...decision to take away U.S. support from the Atlantic weathership program (TIME, Nov. 2) brought howls of protest from participating European countries and angry mutterings from U.S. citizens, e.g., meteorologists and airmen, who make good use of the ships' weather analyses and mid-ocean radio beacons. Last week the State Department quietly admitted a national change of heart. In February, a U.S. delegation will go to the fourth North Atlantic Ocean Stations Conference in Paris. There, said a State Department announcement,"an exchange of views . . . will permit a determination as to whether, as seems likely, a continuation...
...many transatlantic airline passengers ever see a weathership, but the tough little cutters stationed at wide intervals across the stormy North Atlantic are items of reassurance for those who know about them. Supported by the U.S. and 14 Atlantic countries, the weatherships supply the streams of data that are the raw material of modern weather analysis. Their sounding balloons, sent up at frequent intervals, report on conditions aloft. Their radio beacons are like lighthouses on the empty ocean. Sometimes the ships serve as lifesaving stations...
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