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by J. A. CHAPMAN
We're going to have weather, whether or not.
A FUR trapper in northern Canada, far above the Arctic Circle, taps out cryptic numbers on his radio transmitter. Three hundred miles off Cape Elizabeth, the radio operator of the storm-tossed freighter S. S. Bay less sends similar numbers into the ocean night. The lighthouse keeper at Point Vincente reads his numbers into the telephone, and so does a forest ranger high in the Rockies.
From all these numbers, and count' less others sent from all over the United States, Canada and Mexico, comes the short note in your morning paper: "Rain; continued cool and cloudy." So you decide to take your umbrella when you go out this morn' ing. And there's no point now in washing the car. And something must be arranged to amuse the children if they must stay inside all afternoon.
You may not give a hang about weather conditions in the Yukon or off the New England coast or in southern California. You may not be worried, as you read this, about a blizzard sweeping northern Alberta or about the 94 'degree temperature in Mexico City.
But the Canadian blizzard or the Mexican heat wave may change your life. Cold air from Canada, drifting
south, might stir up a tornado that could whisk away your home and property. Or, for another possibility, the warm air mass might move north, bringing a beautiful day; your golf date with an important client is consequently a success, and you get a bonus.
No matter what you do, your de' cisions are almost always influenced by the weather. It is one of the most common topics of your conversation. Everybody talks about the weather, but there are several hundred people who actually do something about it — members of the United States Weather Bureau.
The Weather Bureau people cannot actually control weather, and at present it seems doubtful that they ever will. Instead, they treat weather as a huge, uncontrollable giant whose actions they can chart and even predict, but whom they cannot govern. Watching this giant is a complex task, one that cannot be put aside for even a few hours. Weather is a 24-hour business, a world-wide business. The only way to be sure of tomorrow's weather is to keep constant watch everywhere today.
For this purpose, the United States Weather Bureau has set up one of the world's largest organizations to watch today's weather and predict tomor' row's. More than 400 local weather