Show Small SmaIl Army of Unpaid id I fi Observers of Weather 1 if Thousands of men and nn women a t tas as ns unpaid operative co observers rf rt f the United States weather bureau i r Thanks Thank to the services of these peri Hr i J sons dall dally weather records arc are main r at Ut nearly places place In thi this 1 country and in iii many ninny cases the fl records rec rec- j t 01 5 have been kept with ith hardly unruly a break for 50 riO years ears or more mo-e by an Individual observer or IJ by members of at ar arthe the same family il These records are 11 sent monthly to Washington and anI 11 serve sene as us the raw material from rota which climatic statistics are prepared for I it r rall all parts of the country The bureau r cl supplies to each observer er a rain r gauge Jaube a maximum thermometer for lor re registering the hi highest hest temperatures temperature o e of the 1 day olay a a minimum thermometer r r 11 ter which re registers the lowest ha haa I a wooden thermometer and screen u or shelter The observer N reads his Ia Instruments once a day day i ji lr r. r about sunset sunset and and enters enter the readings read rend a at ings In his register together with stith a 4 U record of various special weather events such as ns frosts thunderstorms thunder thunder- storms tornadoes auroras and cal phenomena t i |