Show KITES KIES THAT TDA T FLY FY FIVE MILES HIGH Weather Bureau Learns What Is Going on in Upper Strata of Air WILL CLIMB HI HIGHER HER ET YET TIET Hope to Send I Instruments up Ten Miles to to Study Storm Areas Uncle Sam flies files l kites kilos tos too If H you OU want to know something 1 about t h how ow and n 1 why h he ho 1 mes It you yu Q will wi I. I have to read the latest report of or Willis Wils Wi- Wi Wil Wll- lis ha ls JU 14 L Moore Moore chief of or the tho Ul United States weather bureau And there thero you will 11 find that that as usual Undo Uncle Unco Sam does docs tho tilo ho proposition on a ot I big and ami a n successful sul scale Little Litle Tommy Tomm and antI Willie ilIe lle If It thoy they are arc particularly energetic get set OO or yards of oC string and fly a diamond shaped creation creaton of or paper an and 1 ce cedar with wih Its picturesque sC o tall tail i. i With Hi good luck it I will rim perhaps feet To rn 0 Tommie and WI Willie I tl the 1 kilo 10 Is fully holt half a 11 mile Tho They Thoy think It ItIs I Is Is ntH and ar are Just as 11 happy as If Ir It I really were But oven o en the Iho half sinks into Insignificance as compared with Uncle Sams Sam's achievements emonts Io lie Ito has established says 88 Mr Ir Moore a r record cort of or 23 1 root feet above e sea RC level cl or 01 2 Il foot above the tho top of at Mount lount Weather from which the kite was started That Is IR a n worlds world's worl's record record not not perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps for kites but for Cor kites bearing Instruments for recording the weather r. r Of course courso Mr ti h Moore doesn't call cal t It a kite kie Its It's Is I's an nn aeroplane And equally of or course It I has a n ape use pe In science The Themen Themen Themen men n In tho Iho employ of or tho the weather Lure bureau u at Mount lount Weather cather Va Ya are aro not flying kites Just for tho the fun run of or seeing the things thinKS go up They ho send send up meteorological apparatus a with tho the kite kite And nd hero Is tho the wa way In which the prosaic weather bureau burau reported I i I I I I Its Is breaking of ot a worlds world's record It I came camo in n ri general forecast Issued at Washington ton at 8 S p. p m m. October 5 last It Its It's IH Cold Up H There Tho The kite klo flights at t Mount Weather Va Yo conducted b by 13 the tho weather bureau during the last few c days havo have shown the tho beginning of tho the stronger turbulent turbulent turbulent lent circulation of or winter Tho The t temperature tOrn tem m- m this afternoon about one mile mie In In tho the free air above tho the station was four Cour degrees above alove freezing with a stron strong west wind On October 3 an In I altitude of slightly over feet Ceet was wa at which blob point 11 of five degrees below zero Fahrenheit was recorded 1 What liat Is the purpose of or it all al Well Wol that is easily enough answered too Tho Thio weather bureau has hns lon long been studying the meteorological conditions con coo of or tho the atmosphere at the surface sur sun face race of the ground It I has established 1 hundreds hundres of or stations all nU over tho the countr country country coun coun- tr try and nt report dal daily to the central offices at nt Washington I In JOy l learning a what 1 s t lacing I on n at ati Pr t lA f an SI 2 a n 1 I at nt ix A Fort Fort Kor Worth orth Tex at nt Denver Donver Don er and nd and Buto Butto and Boise and a n score of or In- In n- n stations it I can tel tell in a fair fairly accurate manner Just jURt what is going gain to Co happen at Salt SaI Lake Stud Alt Air r c. Alm n But Dut It f canno tell with wih absolute ac ac- ac curac curacy And one ono of or tho the reasons for this partial failure is that tho weather bureau has ha had 1 little opportunity of learning what Is going on above the earth Now ow the tho air a mile above aboe tile the I surface at Salt RaI Lake l ce has probably much more influence on the tho weather here her than tho air tir Ir at Butte ute or Portland So the weather bureau Is going to tr try to learn something somethIng of or tho the air above e tho the earth carth A carefully compiled record Is IA being kept at nt Mount Weather Va Ya and If Ir It is r found that a valuable data ma may bo be lo obtained In this manner mannor similar apparatus ap an- will wi probably bo ho Installed at various other stations of oC the wt weather ather bureau Hero are are re some of or tho the gs 1 Mr report Moore says SIS SI'S about aboul this plan In fn his The pr present may bo be said to mark manIc markan manIcan an Important Important epoch In the tho tic development of oC meteorological l science In this thIs' coun- coun tr try The The obtained at Mount Weather have ben been continued C for r rover over three months In success Mr Moores Moore's annual r report was submitted 1 In iii November practically without in interruption 11 and It Is 5 that 11 1 I probable such fuch record tt re will wi be ho maintained indefinitely In tho Ut future futuro Itch Iule The c achievements of this this r research institution now no enable the forecast of officials or- or at t Washington t tp each night tile the vertical of temperature tempera tempera- ture and the tho direction o of tho wind for Cor altitude on ill the tho average U from rom half a amile amile amle mile to two t o mies miles and at times over over four and md one half miles and thus Ihus to learn s something regarding the conflict ot of currents their direction and force Corco lit imi tt tho tM upper tippet regions These data are aro of or great value in n the making o of forecasts tore fore COe casts for foi- o l middle Atlantic lante and andew New ew ewEn En England l nd states plates and for the elucidation of or man many problems of the upper air that thai heretofore It I has lf he been n Impossible to tudy t ill All 1 of Ir if the t uses to which these data will viii wi le be applied can not miot now be he determined deter determined mined but It be lie d definitely stat tI t lut e eon can Il h stated that thai for tr tho tito first uit h t time Ethic In the history of ot meteorological science u a hart chart can be presented to students n and esp to tho government o fort forecasters showing for tor each ocl day l time the conditions of the at- at 11 at altitudes which so far ar ar havo hayo nevor been Icen approached l by IIII any captive apparatus that thai could le COl he be safely and ex- ex returned to the hand of tho the observer I I Ml It uJ Is Apparent that when a 3 comparatively stratum of oC abnormally t oly deep warm arm or abnormally cold coM air all persistently persistently persist persist- enly o overlies es a region tho the action acton o of a moving cyclone or anticyclone on the weather experienced at the bottom o of the tite atmosphere will wil bo 10 10 m materially dlf- dlf 11 ent from that which would be bo ex experienced ox- ox r were the upper air at a normal normal normal nor nor- mal temperature It Is 18 also to be no noted noted not not- ed d that where a n re reversal of or lio the temperature temperature tem tern gradients rn is shown hown a different differ differ- cot ent nt forecast would bo ho made nado than If i I the tempera temperature turo uniformly and gradually grade grade- 1 ally shaded ed Inay away from tho surface up up- wardIn ward vard In Iq II of or the success attained In getting n nights flights to considerable oleva olova- tlona tons on practically cry q very day Jt t I Is confidently expected that wr with a n still stI further Improvement ement In apparatus 1 It will bo be possible to study the tue march o ot of teme temperature through drough tim the various arlou seasons seasons seasons seas seas- ons of ot the to year at nt altitudes heretofore Inaccessible as It It I Is probable that thai eventually heights of or 5 to G C miles Clues wl trill wll bo ho frequently attained 1 In the tile making of or those observations But Rut the weather bureau Is plating excursions Into tho atmosphere that make four Cour nn and 1 one half or five miles up look small How does toes this soun sound 1 and other necessary apparatus arc aro fro now new being ni made e with wIh a aview view of exploring tho the various quadrants quadrants quad quad- rants of or typical storms In the western region It I is proposed to liberate simultaneously aim sim a large number large number of or free freo balloons balloons bal bal- loons loozis so constructed as to explode as near as a mn may h bo hp at some somo predetermined altitude probably altitude probably 10 miles the miles tho tho object being to secure data not for tor the direct purpose of or making weather wRather forecasts but to explore storms anti and cold waves so that more mor may bo be learned about the exact eXt operations of or nature within these atmo atmospheric ph 11 ortE vortices 1 |