. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. by 7 years of famine. The ancient Greeks and Romans' had their meteorologist. Cato said he did not know how so many "sooth- sayers" could look at each other without laughing. "Forecasting started with in- struments' to measure weather, |people used to climb mountains 'to find out what height did to barometers and later they sent up balloons. Then in the first World War airplanes went up. We began to probe with rockets, radar came next, and it was then thought we were going to have perfect weather forecasting, bu. we
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. by 7 years of famine. The ancient Greeks and Romans' had their meteorologist. Cato said he did not know how so many "sooth- sayers" could look at each other without laughing. "Forecasting started with in- struments' to measure weather, |people used to climb mountains 'to find out what height did to barometers and later they sent up balloons. Then in the first World War airplanes went up. We began to probe with rockets, radar came next, and it was then thought we were going to have perfect weather forecasting, bu. we did not. We began to get certain theories as to air masses'. "I wish I could be more optimistic on longe range forecasting. There are methods to make forecasts for four or five days. The day will come when long range forecasting really ; Don Kent said it *vvas a pleasure to meet the cranberry growers face to face. He said he agreed with Oscar Tenenbaum in everything he said. "We have problems' in short range forecas- ing, and an awful lot of them. e told of recent forecasts in vhich he had been 98 percent vrong. He said forecasters all vork from the same charts but ;hey often interpret them dif- erently. He said this morning (the norning of the meeting) there .vas a ten percent chance of :howers. "But Dr. Cross was able 0 scare them away. He said that he day before he and the A'"eather Bureau had ; "If you can't work outside what 1 pity you can't have lots of rain. imagine the Cape gift shop i>eople love this s'ort of weather I- people can't go to the beaches 0 they come to the gift shops, get more letters than other lureaus do, I mention little owns nearby (Bc^ston) and I get laore kidding, too, for being /rong. I'm a nut. I get involved 1 these things. I think we have s many problems' on short range js in long range ; This is a very challenging field ^ work in. No one can be right all the time. I feel tha
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