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Show . J - r 1 I t 1 11 --' U V - u - NEW YORK, March 23. Willi 1 Moore, chief of the weather bureau at Washington, announced last night at the dinner of the Maritime association that the weather bureau might aoon Issue forecasts of a whole month. Mr. Moor hnd been loked hard by Job E. Hedges, when he arose and got permission per-mission to add to his speech, already delivered. He then saH: "yhe weather bureau believes that for the first time in the history of meteorological me-teorological science it has within its grasp the scientific basis of long-range weather forecasting that is, forecasts of the character of the month to come. "The details are not yet complete and thex8y8tem will not be adopted for sev-t eral months to come. . i "It . may be possible, and I believe It will be-, to tell you New Yorkers and members of tha maritime exchange before be-fore this time next year what the char- acter of the coming month will be." t Mr. Moore said after the dinner that he had not Intended to make this announcement an-nouncement at this - time, but had planned to give it first to the public through the scientific publications. |