VOLUME VII, NUMBER 2
8 JANUARY 1961
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'BEFORE 7DDAY& WEATHER
FORECAST1*! HOPE THERE'
ARE no HARO FBEU1NS?
ABOUT YESTE PQAVl
The sto*m that was rumored to hit last Wed*
riesday wasn*t announced over AFRTS and Weather
Services at Adak knew that no storm was headed
here but everyone was talking about it. "DoDo"
from Operations made a statement about some
storm at the Bowling Alley Tuesday night - did
you start the.rumor or were you repeating it?
Everyone talks about the weather on Adak —
but no -one does or can do anything about it so
instead of talking anymore about Weather your
Editor would like to talk about the Weather
Services Division of the Operations Department.
At Adak this, division has quite a responsib
ility in compiling information on the weather
received from other stations and its own observ*
attons to give Adak operating forces that may
request it, Reeves and other units, a composite
picture of weather in the Adak area at anytime,
24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The four officers and 20 enlisted men who
make up the crew are busy enough with regular
duties concerning weather forecasting but they
do more than is required of them as do nearly
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all divisions of our station# Other projects which are included m the duties of
the Division includes
Water sampling for Scripps Institute of Oceanography at La Jolla, California
Collection of water samples to determine the distribution of hydrogen and oxygen
isotopes for the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna, Austria.
Weather Reports and observations for the International Geophysical Year project
which has continued for several years and is still going on. *
Upper Air Soundings are taken twice daily which consist of sending balloons with
radio transmitters. These balloons have attained heights as high as 137 thousand
feet. ..
Special weather forecasts for the Marine Biologists embarked in vessels from
Seattle ir> connection with a study of Marine Life that is undergone each year with
the Marine Biologists from Seattle University and the National Fish & Wildlife Ser
vice.
Future operations will see the Weather Services Division tracing storm tracks for
the Fish & Wild Life Service to help them determine how some small birds (no larger
than a sparrow) have migrated to Amchitka from China.
An experimental automatic weather station will be placed into operation at Amchit
ka which will report conditions there automatically. This station .requires no pers
onnel to operate it and is hoped to provide weather information automatically for
a period of six months without servicing,
AN.ADA* SUM-WELL-DONE TO THE MEMBERS 0£ THE WEATHER SERVICES DIVISION
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