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Show 4A Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1984 MARK EUBANK loves the topic of weather and uses his voice, facial expressions and hands to explain whats happening in the clouds and airstreams above us. The Electric Weatherman A world BOUNTIFUL map serves as the mural covering the back wall in Mark office. On his desk sits a computer programmed to give (what else?) the weather. It gives not just the local daily forecast, e forecast in but the condithe road state, plus any tions from here to Tucumcari. Eubank, KUTV meteorologist and a resident of Bountiful, talks animatedly, although briefly, about his boyhood in California. He explains how he used to gaze out the window and in school. And how in the eighth grade he discovered weather when he noticed a cloud coming in from one direction while the storm was coming from the oth- Eu-ban- ks er. My dad used to get mad and tell me to get my head out of the clouds and stop talking about the weather and think about more practical things to do with long-rang- . day-drea- my life. he says. He borrowed books on weather and his parents bought him a rain gauge and other equipment for determining weather. When he was 15, he wrote a weekly weather column for the Torrance m News Press. And he was a part-tim- e weath- - erman at a Redding TV station before he and his wife and two children moved to Utah so that he could finish school at the University, of Utah. His conversation soon shifts to the subject he loves. The weather is much easier to predict now, he says. In the 60s accuracy was low because there were no computers or satellites. How accurate are weather predictions now? There is a certain state of the art, he explains. There are only so many scien-- , tific facts and a certain level that science is capable of achieving. Within the first 24 hours he says that weather predictions are 89 percent accurate. Within the next 24 hours that drops and by the fifth day the accuracy level is 50-5-0. On his wall map Eubank shows some of the reasons for such vast changes in the weather. The jet streams, he says, are like railroad tracks, and all weather systems, or rivers of air, flow along those tracks. The difficult thing is in trying to determine exactly where the jet streams will be because they are always moving. At the equator, hot air rising causes them to move and at the polar regions they shift because the air is cold and sinking. In my personal opinion, he explains, our weather has great cycles. Tree rings tell us what the weather was hundreds of years ago. By studying the rings, we can tell if the weather is getting wetter or dryer. Eubank believes that now we are heading back to our old cycles. Why does he love the weather, which he freely admits he does? My whole task in life is to find the secret a A IwlgU. we lit Photos By Robert Regan predicting e SEASON , can now. mid-wint- er SAVING BABIES.;. BOOTH SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN THE FIRST ANNUAL Lakeside Kevie'cv HOME & GARDEN SHOW AT THE BEAUTIFUL IAYTGN HILLS MALL ALL PERFORMANCES THLRSDA YSiOQ F.M. at li'.S.C. Vo! A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts January 19 JOSEPH SILVERSTEIbl, conducting ELMAR OLIVEIRA, violin Serenade for Winds in D Minor DVORAK HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass SIBELIUS Violin Concerto MARCH 7, 8, 9 and SYMPHONY-BALLE- Phone 399-921- 4 ASSOCIATION T 2580 Jefferson Ave., OGDEN UT. 84401 , Support March of Dimes ... IF YOU HAVE A SERVICE OR PRODUCT PLEASE PHONE 1 .r 298-891- 6 Hurry for Best Booth Selection As Spscs is Filling Quickly J)GDN. 1 dont believe there is anythin!! more beautiful. But the death rate for Black babies is shockingly high! If you think y ou are pregnant. go to a doctor right away. The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation works to save babies. but y ou have to help. For inure information, contact your local March of Dimes, chapter. THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS SHOW. 776-495- TICKETS: s, , Story By Cheryl Archibald THE SILVERSTEIN out-look- k, Since we now know that cosmic rays and magnetic fields have much to do with the weather, Eubank foresees, being able to plug them in anid find WwA 24-ho- ur 90-da- - weather cycles, he says. For example, he cites that navigators in Columbuss day knew that the tides came in and went out, but they Could not predict the exact times when the tides would be high and low, as long-rang- . to tainly primed for disaster. The on driving conditions, y ground is saturated and unstable weather outlooks, or general weather condiand slides are still ready to slide. The mountains received tions for specific areas just by. more snow this December than pushing the right button. To keep abreast of the latest Disc jockeys never have to did last December. The reafacts about weather, he confesses they is that worry about giving an old rehe for son explains, that, he sometimes, reads the trade the storms this year came from port, he says, because it is magazines while the sports is be- off Californias coast and last constantly being updated. ing broadcast on the air. . While closely guarding his year they came from the northEuwere at where west Every night midnight, familys privacy, Eubank nevertemperatures bank takes readings on air pres- colder. theless is active in the LDS sure, temperature, moisture and Actually, being a weatherman Church, having served as a stake wind from his own weather sta- on TV is only a small part of mission president, a bishop, and tion in his back yard. When he what Eubank does. , He has as a counselor in his stake preshas to be out of town, a neigh- formed his own weather consult- idency among other callings. He bor or his son takes the readings, ing company, called Weather-Banis also an adjunct professor at he says. Incdrporated, which now Westminster College. . sells weather information nationBarry Nielson, KUTV mornDespite all of the technplogi.-ca- l advances in weather, some ing and noon weatherman is Eu- - wide to' radio 'and television banks neighbor, and he too has stations and others who want to old Indian methods of predicting his own weather station. The have the weather details at their weather still remain, true. bank says that whenever there is readings at each station some-- , fingertips. times differ and Eubank thinks a halo around the moon it will Weather information is gathit is because the wind fluctuates ered from military, government, rain in five days.. And whenever between the. two houses. f and private sources, and then is there are sundogs - vertical Bountiful weather has been , processed by computer and sent pieces of rainbows to the left abnbrmal in the last few years, to the Weststar satellite. Anyone and right of the sun in a cloud, he says, where the chance of with a satellite dish, monitor, it is certain there will be a storm ' and key can receive information in five days. having a white Christmas is nor47 usuMarch is mally percent. ally the snowiest month here because the temperatures are colder but there is also less moisture. As far as more flooding is concerned, he says, we are cer Famous model IMW talks about babies: the rules governing weather cycles. He admits that many of his colleagues feel its just chaos, but he doesnt agree with them. For Best Result; Read The Classified |