| Show OW THE WEATHER IS MADE I Funny Telegrams From O Other her Stations I J Are Puzzle to a Visitor at the Local Office t L IS 15 USED I I B By AMY ARMSTRONG cnE DU BUMMING SUl K SHERIDAN i BU BUMMING n l MERMAID Imn 1 INSANE I BIRDS TIa 8 3 18 what ha 1 some some- of oC the tho telegrams Fa said I 1 rat i-aw 8 it III the weather cather bureau burrau when t I I h 11 It yesterday Y Just t why hy Cheynne Cheynne's Chey- Chey a bumming should have o an anything to too too too o with the weather It t n hard for tor me meo o e free ace and as l h Ink J 1 had ever heard of that particularly particular brand I was o did not me eve f the th price of the Ink rind find to bum t t until I learned that tho the telegram was nl a code codo and meant barometer 30 10 56 66 wind northwest clear char MI temperature 54 51 wind velocity six Ix ethos illos an hour The eon consonants stand land for foi guns as follows tollo B R. R 11 10 10 D D. D 20 F. F 20 10 M M. 50 0 I N K 60 1 It TO iO S SO and T T. T 00 50 0 B S First t Visit Ut t wan wall the first drat time Um UmI I had ever cr been o f see e the ma man n who makes 5 the 11 weather ther I Ican Ican Ilean can lean tho the n f who has It rain when your jour our Q hall ball team tOJ Is III going to play or oron on ou c have arranged to go o on a Ii pIcnic and who ho has the sun Nun when whon your join country countr cousins cousin au Hm coming to town lown and you jou ou wanted It to rain cats nn and dogs so gO th they couldn't make It Funny thing thing thing-he ho d dOesn t look Zook like tha that t kJ kind nIl of or a 11 man at niland nil 1111 and he lie ra says s he hn himself clr really cannot do doso so sn ten ten- pr much about controlling tin weather er PI and cn even help h lp It sometimes when nhen he slips up a hit on the forecasting I of or what I h Is going to pp hl happen n 1 I Iwas was surprised b because u l I had HO so often heard persons pen blaming him for or conditions condition I as it thou though h It were all his hili fault fl find and I er never knew an anything thing about It H m ef before be be- fore rore I The telegrams arc are the tho Ort first Important thing thief which happens In th the morning and thc they have to do dolth with forecasting the weather At 6 S o our time weather nations all over the United c r take Jb eT and th these e ob observations arc are ent dent b by telegrams telegram In code to every ery other station so the man In charge of each place knows exactly what bat are arc the conditions condi condl ions e everywhere e el-e el The rhe forecasting I IlJa Is bated based e 1 on the principle that ail ll weather weather- that I ha Is storms torme and such lIuch things move thongs move from west to cn east cast t. t a and nd Jon long experience experience- I has las shown Ju just JuH t about what course the they will take like ikc Train Dispatching Uc C work much along the same lines in a a. train dispatcher said A A. II 11 sen n section director here a at t Salt Halt Lake kc Th The difference dl Is that only our oui storm do donot riot not have a 11 track alo along which to co 10 and do I not always Ys take exactly way nay ay one cx- cx peels them then to lo So So-If So u storm has hns gathered In Los An Angeles u n nelc Fetes geles elc It Is sure t to lo mo move in an nn en be direction and ml weather conditions can cn be he foretold Just what places It will touch Is has han to exercise where the man mm his Ingenuity and use his experience Certain conditions precede a storm tonn certain ones OUCH follow It It and anil with tho lo aid of tho weather m map p It Is ts rather easy to 10 understand especially underhand especially when you ou c have some som wise who person to Interpret It l cn h he went to tell about this map Mr lr Thiesen Thies- Thies esen e- e sen en took oft off hl his ha hat t. t I 1 IW s 's lit to tako off oft In my hat lint when I talk tolk about forecasting he ht remarked In pacing because cp expert rt forecasting Is an art and a person who can do It 11 well weB deserves r i r respect pe t A storm stone Is 15 a whirl caused b by a stream of or air and flown from rom west to east It whirls In an anticlockwise l c direction It Itma ma may bo be cau caused ed h bj by a 0 heated area or b bj by opposite streams I of air lr coming together When the pressure pressure- la Is low we have o a R storm It Is always 3 warm rm on tho the approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap of a storm torm and nil this often orten C causes UIS UI'S moisture either cither rain or snow now I according to how warm It Is IR So o If IC there liters If- If Ifa Ita a storm coming which Is almost t c certain to pees pass a n given town warm wea weather eather ther and nd perhaps rain can all bo lie predicted A 1 weather rather man manian can ian logo Io 10 o out o storms storme increase go JO faster or slower than anticipated so make different conditions Weather Machinery The machinery which grinds grind out tho the weather IB tK very verj There are aro several t Instruments In tho the office on the floor of tho the Boston BOlSton building where tho the station Billion o hero here Is under glass covers like the tho and anel v a wax wa flowers In ht our grandmothers grandmother's parlors One On looks Just lIke Ilko a pianola record Jon long lines of little dots on all a 11 sheet of or rap paper r which goes ol's round anti and round This Is an Instrument for r recording th the direction of the wind WillI hid ever er every minute of the dav day It IK ix connected with a weather wather vane ane on the high structure structure ture on top of the tho building and with adock a clock dock which maker mak-Ii a complete electric ctrl circuit Then there thero I Is u n somewhat f similar sim sim- similar ilar liar Instrument which records the sunshine sun lInI lIn- lIn shine Long Lone straight lines III's i how wh when n I the th sun has not tint h peen been en shining and ami all also o when It Is dark at night Then Theil there Is another funny funn affair which Is exceedingly important In forecasting lIn a as I it t r records col ah all' pressure On the roof of the Boston Doston building are arc the contrivances which gather facts fact about I the weather eather A rp ISO feet feel above c the ground bears beirs the tho weather want ant to out the direction of oC th the wind and another an alt- other affair tho the anemometer to measure Its velocity elocH Then rhen titer thel 1 Is 1 tho the 1 sunshine I record or 01 connected with the Instruments below belo beloOn On the roo roof Is the tipping bucket b by which the amount of rainfall Is h measured measured meas meas- J and anil a pair pall of thermometers for fur measuring humidity and two for recording record record- In Ing the highest and the lowest t temperatures tempera tempera- tures The thermometers for tor finding out the humidity arc lite Vcr very funn funny Some Ja lady Jadv once called them egg eat beaters and they the do act them They Thoy aro ro two parallel l attached to an Instrument which can be whirled around One of or them has a H wet rag raS' tied aroun around It us ns If Ir IrIt It h had d a sore finger and when tho the Instrument Instrument Instrument ment Is whirled the difference which Is shown between the two measures tho the humidity I humidity I Ever 1 so man many more things I learned about how Important predictions are to I farmers and fruit grow growers ere and nd of ot how much sen Ice they can be of how hots maps map are made out enI every day daj n with lines JInes showIng showing show show- ing low tt temperatures where temperatures have o changed chan and dozens of ot other things 1 hut but I had a t terrific headache when I got ot through and I dont don't want to give one to 0 I I an any on onto one else |
