The September 17 , 1939 Montana Standard ( Butte , MT ) ran an article titled , “ Foolproof Weatherman of 1989 . ” Excerpts along with the clause in its entireness seem below . My apology to Pittsburgh .
Weather for November : First to tenth , rainy with some C or sleet ; tenth to twentieth , mostly middling , with frost and probably a austere halt in the northern part of the state ; twentieth to thirtieth , unsettled , clear toward end of the calendar month ; Thanksgiving Day certain to be fair and only somewhat cool .
dead reckoning divination from an old - fashioned patent music farmer’s calendar ? No : prescribed prognosis , dated July 1 , 1989 from the Weather Bureau headquarters in your home state . Based rigorously on scientific analysis of exactly observed conditions months in progression , and made possible by improvements in instrument and numerical methods that will add up during the next 50 years .
We have the countersign of seasoned weathermen that this form of forecast is within the limit of imaginable possibility , to come in the life of our untried kid .
A few months ago , the then tribal chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau , Dr. Willis R. Gregg , wrote to all the leading meteorologist , both in government activity military service and in universities throughout the country , ask them to take a vacation for a moment from the forecasting – to tell what they thought it might be like , half a century hence .
The clause goes on to draw the push button - button future of weather condition forecasting .
look forrader 50 years on our own story , we may vision the future top dog of the U.S. Weather Bureau sitting in his laboratory . A CRT screen is on the wall . He pushes a button , and see a readable sky above the smoky pall of Pittsburgh ( or peradventure there wo n’t be any smoke above Pittsburgh by then ) . He pushes another , and pick up clouds scoot over Chicago , driven by a solid NW wind . Another , and the filmdom blurs blind white ; there is a raging blizzard at Medicine Hat . And so on , across Alaska and Siberia .
See also : Communities May Be Weatherized ( Edwardsville Intelligencer , 1952)American Version of mailing-card depict the Year 2000 ( circa 1900)The Coming Ice Age ( 1982 )
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