METEOROLOGY 1929 by CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN Librarian, U. S. Weather Bureau THE aviator now is getting weather information along the principal commercial flight-ways   of  the world. As the information is supplied by radio broadcasts, it is available to the entire community, and it is found to have many useful applications altogether outside the domain of [...]

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Good and Evil Effects of the Drought SOMETHING LIKE A MYSTERY ROLE is being played by the drought in the business drama. It’s an ill drought that brings no good, reflect some commentators, thinking of the rise in grain prices, the use of that burdensome wheat surplus for feed instead of corn, the encouragement given [...]

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The Frequency of Droughts NO PART of the United States or Canada is entirely exempt from drought, and no agricultural season passes in which it does not afflict some parts of these countries. There has never, however, according to Charles Fitzhugh Talman, been a drought over the whole or the greater part of temperate North [...]

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A COLD SUMMER; AS PREDICTED THIS SUMMER HAS REWARDED its prophets, Dr. E. E. Free believes. In an article contributed to The Herald Tribune (New York), he bids us note that nearly three years ago two unofficial meteorologists, Mr. Herbert Janvrin Browne, of Washington, and Mr. H. H. Clayton, of Massachusetts, began predicting that 1927 [...]

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FALSE WATERSPOUTS—A true waterspout—in other words, a tornado over a body of water—is a vortex in the atmosphere that in all cases forms at the cloud-level and works downward, says Charles Fitzhugh Talman, in his Science Service feature, “Why the Weather?” (Washington). As soon as the vortex reaches the water, the latter becomes violently agitated, [...]

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