Show Pretty meteorology department Patsy learns how to measure rainfall from graduate R. and John E. The recent rainfall was U Trains Weather Men Students Learn To Tell Rain Storms By DARRELL KNIGHT Some people might think that the poor weather man takes a lot of abuse and criticism from the public about his but it hasn't discouraged 25 University of Utah students who are majoring in meteorology at the comparatively new In the fall of 1948 work was initiated on the Utah campus to build a of Meteorology and by the spring quarter of the first class of graduates in the school received Since inception in the students themselves have built the weather station in a spirit of From its birth on the third floor of the mines weather precipitation calculators and wind velocity meters have been erected on the roof and the station has taken Dean J. Vern amiable head of the department related the story of the schools He stated that this year the students are building a calibrator used to measure the sensitivity of weather At its completion the station will have a fully complete save a few radar and electronic devises found only in much larger In comparison with the U. S. Weather Bureau at the Municipal Airport university station records usually less rain fall for the East Bench of the winds of greater and temperatures of about ten degrees higher during cold Hales pointed out that the weather bureau is feet below the Utah station and this difference in would account for the In the future the department hopes to send students out on field into the snowy hills to measure The old subject of complaint that occupies many a conversation around the lunch counter or over the back yard fence cannot be applied to these future weather prophets as Hales pointed out with a sound of can do everything but publish forecast of the |