Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather data from ships and planes out in the Pacific. And as the hieroglyphics of his profession spread across his maps, he recognized signs of trouble. The Pacific High, a mass of high-pressure air that normally occupies most of the area between Alaska and Hawaii, shielding California in winter from rain-bearing oceanic winds, was breaking in two before his eyes. Half of it had moved southward to the latitude of Mexico while the other half had shifted north ward to the Gulf of Alaska. Through the low-pressure gap that resulted, a stream of warm, moist, tropical...
Canadian High. While the Pacific Northwest was suffering, the rest of the U.S. was enjoying unusually calm and warm winter weather. The Canadian High, another meteorological fixture, moved southward to cover the central part of the continent, protecting it from arctic cold and keeping the bad weather of the Pacific from penetrating much beyond the Rocky Mountains...
After ten days, the Pacific High pulled itself together again. The normal pattern of northwest winter weather brought cold air from Alaska. Snowfall put ski resorts back in business again. The steep rivers stopped foaming, and river towns began cleaning up the debris left by floods. Then, early last week, the sheltering Pacific High broke in two once more, and another wind from Hawaii headed for California. Another warning went out, and inhabitants of flood-damaged towns headed for the hills...
...Pacific High was knitting itself together again and West Coast weathermen were trying to spot the original cause of the trouble. Some of them blamed the jet stream, the belt of high-altitude wind that blows around the planet in mid-latitudes. It has been unusually swift this winter, reaching speeds of 150 m.p.h., and has crossed the U.S. in an unusual pattern, curving down from western Alaska to Southern California and then slanting up to Chicago. It may have had some influence on low-altitude weather, but experts do not agree. One group blames the West Coast...
...saying immediately what stand the Ivy League colleges might take on the dispute next winter; it doesn't seem likely that any conflict will come up before then, since the Ivies don't participate in any AAU-sponsored meets in the spring...