Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 12 | S. L. Weathermen Gather Data to Promote Safer Air Travel

I Hes He's No Common Publisher I L j L c y S w y SS S t A 1 S. S DEAN GREEN VIEWS PRINTING HANDIWORK I I Great variety of weather bureau publications shown S. S L. L Weathermen Gather Data To Promote Safer Air Travel Variety of the services provided in Utah by the U. U S S. weather bureau is such that operation of two separate divisions is required The meteorological service has been assembling and publishing data in this state since the weather bureau was formally created in 1891 but the station w was s not established here until about 10 years ago Our e entire n t ire FOURTH I program revolves revolves around m making a k 1 n g OF A t air travel more mores SERIES ERIES s 09 a f fe e H H. M. M Hightman mete- mete at the airways station at the municipal airport said Friday Under his direction the airways forecast center prepares weather forecasts four times daily to cover the air routes in the entire intermountain intermountain intermountain inter- inter mountain area Winds aloft reports are issued f from om data gathered by sending up balloons Hourly reports on temperature winds and visibility along the air routes are gathered for broadcasting broadcast broadcast- ing to pilots by U. U S S. S department of commerce operators Stations Supervised Supervised- In addition n to the local work Mr Hightman and his aids also supervise supervise supervise super super- vise the work of all smaller stations stations sta sta- Hons along the mountain airways There are 23 such stations 10 of at them emergency landing fields in Utah alone Weather maps and other charts are prepared at the the airways airways station in Salt Lake Lale City and sent by plane throughout the intermountain area Even activities of the meteorological meteorological meteorological meteoro meteoro- logical service in the federal building building building build build- ing are more varied than might be imagined at first To many Salt Lakers the daily dally weather forecast represents the to total total total to- to tal work of the bureau Actually however work connected with the daily forecast represents only a avery avery avery very small proportion of the time of weather bureau officials Questions Pour In Whenever there is a storm storm and and when the weather is calm and peaceful some peaceful some of the workers must spend much of their day answering answering answering an an- questions on the telephone Despite ite these interruptions Interruptions- which are a part of the weather bureau service service service-a a series of publications publications publications must be prepared Each week weather crop and range condition data must be as assembled assembled assembled as- as from all sections of Utah into a statewide report distributed to customers Each month 1000 copies of a Utah climatological summary made up of ot reports from stations must be published together with copies of the months month's conditions in Salt Lake City Reports Consolidated At the end of the year weather bureau officials consolidate the monthly statements into annual ones issuing copies on Salt Lake City and 1500 on the state Specialized services are conducted conduct conduct- ed too such as the daily frost warnings for alfalfa seed growers in the Delta and Deseret areas during durIng during dur dur- ing the harvest season Another specialized service is the annual snow survey made at the end of each March to give water officials over the state a comprehensive comprehensive comprehensive compre compre- picture of water storage conditions in the mountains To facilitate issuance of all the different weather bureau publications publications publications a regular printing plant is operated operated operated op op- as part of ot the bureau at the federal building by S. S Dean Green government printer In addition to the Utah work Mr Green also prints the Montana weather summaries and the annual reports for Yellowstone Park PoI Pocatello Pocatello Po- Po catello Idaho Grand Junction I Colo Cola and Devils Devil's Lake N N. D D. D