Show 9 HOW Hj THE WEATHER IS MADE Funny Telegrams From Other Stations j Are Puzzle to o V Visitor at t the Local Loca Office I I f r. r QUEEN MACHINERY IS 15 USED t By AMY ARMSTRONG CHEYENNE CHEYE E DU BUMMING I SU INK l SHERIDAN U CHICAGO INSANE BIRDS BinDS Is what sonic some of tho the telegrams aid fald which I J saw caw at lit the tho weather eather bureau when I visited h It Jt Just yesterday why Chey Chey- Cheyenne Cheyenne's enne's ennes bumming should ha have va anything to tf torte do rte w with the weather It was hard for me meTo meto meto to see find and nd as for Ink I had f heard of that particularly brand before I was sorry Cheyenne did not have havo tho Iho price of the Ink and had to hum It until I 1 learned that th the telegram wai was only a cOOP code and meant barometer n I temperature 66 56 wind northwest clear lowest temperature 54 51 wind velocity six Ix m miles ea an au hour The consonants stand tand for forfi fi figures urs ur's as follow fellows B 10 D. D 2 20 F F. 30 G a 10 co M r 50 SO N X 60 n R. 70 jO b i. i SO and T T. T 00 30 0 Is First Visit p j It was vas the lint time lime I tad had ever cr been heen to see sec c the man who makes the weather ather I mean man the man who has It rain when your fa ball team Is coin to pIa play or you roll have arranged to go on n a picnic and who has lice the sun chino when your our country cousins are arc coming comins to town lown and antI you ou wanted l It to lo rain cats cab and dogs dobs eo co th they y couldn't make It Funn Funny thing ho thins ho doesn't look like Ilk that thu kind of a man at all mid and he ht says tas he himself Tall really really- cannot Cl dl do doso PO so very cn much about controlling the weather er cr and cannot even help It sometimes when h he slips slip up liP a bit on tho thew forecasting of exactly what in is going oln to happen n. n 1 was surprised f because I 1 hall hail so po often orten heard per persons ons blaming him for conditions as though It II were all his hla fault ault and I never know knew anything about It myself be e fore tore The telegrams arc Hrc the first 11 10 t Important thing which happens In the morning a and the they have to lo do with forecasting the wa weather ther At At 6 o clock our tine time weather stations all nil over oel the United States take tako obena observation lion and these observations I ure rp rent ent by telegrams teJe In code to I cr every overy other station no so the man In charge char of each p a place e knows exactly what are the conditions conditions condi condl- everywhere c else The rhe forecasting la III lab b bat based ed on the that all weather weAther- tint I I Is Ir storms and puch Duch things things move move from we west t to ra eat t. t a and lon long experience has lias shown Just about what course they will lit take ke Like Train Dispatching We p work worle much along the same mc lines linesa as a twin dispatcher said A 1 II II Thiesen Thiessen Thies- Thies sen en section director here at Salt alt l lake ikc The only difference I Is III that tha tour our t storms do donot donot JI not Jt ha have ha han n a track lilon along which to co go o and anti do not always all take taka c exactly the tre wa way one expects expects expects ex ex- them thern to 10 So If a It storm has gathered In Los An Angeles n geles cles it Is Ie sure suro to move In iii an easterly direction and weather neither conditions can bo he foretold Just what places It will touch Is la where the weather man has hils to 10 i o ohis his ingenuity and use hla hits experience Certain conditions precede n a storm certain ones follow It it and with the tho aid aM of tho weather map It is 15 s rather cas easy to whon when have understand understand especially you ou some wise person to Interpret It It H. When he lie went to tell lell about this map Mr 1 Thiessen Thies- Thies i sen en took off orr his hat t. I always take off oft my hat w when I 1 talk about about forecasting he remarked In passing b because caulle expert forecasting In Is an art urt and a who can do It w well deserves respect ct A storm Is a whirl caused b by a stream of a air Ir and flows now from west to east eRst It whirls In an anticlockwise direction CUon It may be caus caused d h by R a h heated area arM or ot by opposite streams of air coming cominS' together When tho the pr pressure Is low we have hac a storm It Is always warm wann on the approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap of a storm and this often orten causes moisture either rain or snow snots according to how warn warm It tt Is So iSo o If Ir f there is a storm coming which Is almost almos certain to pass n a given town wad warm m weather cather And perhaps rain gain can be he predicted A WM weather man can an 11 lose Ieee out l c storms Increase go 0 faster r or slower than anticipated J so make different cond conditions Weather Machinery The machinery which grind out nut the weather r 1 is very eory Interesting There are arc several e Instruments In III the tho office on the floor of the Boston Doston building bulletins where the station here is is III under glass gluss covers ers 1110 the stuffed birds and antI wax wn flowers In our grandmothers grandmother's parlors On One looks Just like a pianola record long lines of Hute dots on a IL sheet of p paper which goes jONI round and ami This Is an instrument for recording the tho direction of or the tho wind fl Cr every of the tho day It IL Is connected with a n weather vane oue on the high tuio turo on top of tile the building and with a clock which snakes makes a n complete electric circuit Then there Is a somewhat f sImIlar similar sim sin ilar Instrument which records record the tho sunshine sun fun sunshine shine long Lon straight ht lines show how when the turn sun has not been shining and also when it Is dark at night Th Then there rc la is another runn funny affair which Is exceedingly ly Import lIt In forecasting as It records s air pressure On the thi roo roof of lh the tho Rt Boston building ar arthe arthe are the contrivances w Id h gather ather facts about tho the weather A Structure ISO feet above o the therould ground rou hears hear rf t the he weather ant vant tl to find out the direction of oC the tho wind and another another an an- other arC II the anemometer n to measure Its velocity Then then ther IH It tin till sunshine recorder connected with the instruments Instrument below On th the roof I in is the Iho tipping bucket h hv by which h the amount amunt of ot r rainfall I Is measured meas Incas tired anti and a 8 pair of thermometers for measuring humidity and two for recording recordIng record record- Ing In the highest and the lowest temperature tempera tempera- l- l ture tures The Th thermometers for tor finding out the tho humidity are aro very verv funny Fomo Sono lady r once nce railed called lied them therm tg t bea heaters tor and t they hr do 10 act like them They are aro two parallel thermometers thermometer a Inched attached I to an aft Instrument which tan cyan bo ho whirled around One Ono of or them ha has a wet stet ra rag tied Around It as If it IfIl It Il had a sore Fore linger and when the Instrument tru- tru ment is whirled ed the difference which IH la lashown shown between the tho two treasures measures the humidity I. I Ever Eer s-o s o many more things I learned learnell about how Ilow important predictions are to fit farmers farmer and fruit rull growers and of It how much service the they can an be he of how maps nrc nc made out e cr every do day with lines show how showing howIng Ing low temperatures where temperatures ha ha haf have f changed and t dozens of other othor things hilt but I hind had a terrific headache when whon I got ot through h and I dont don't want waitt to give one to lo loany toI I I it any II one aile else Ife |