Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Oct 9, 1976
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Clouds are weather’s 6 signature ’
EDITOR’S NOTE: The weather is one of the most
awesome and vital forces known to man. This is the ninth
article in. a continuing series of stories designed to
familiarize readers with the environment.
If you think weather forecasting is tough now, how would
you like to do it without clouds? Clouds are often the tell-tale
sign of what’s to come, and on radar screens and
photographs they even offer “signatures” to professional
meteorologists.
Whether it’s an amateur “weatherman” such as the far
mer, or the kind who’s a scientist, they all need clouds to
know what’s going on. Granted, they’d still have a few signs
to go by, but clouds are the most obvious. Without them we’d
be just about lost.
Take the evening or morning skies, for example. Many
times a fanner can tell what might be in store the next day by
observing how the sky looks. What he sees is actually the
reflection of light in particles of water vapor, dust, and other
minute debris - clouds. If it weren’t for clouds, he would see
nothing because air - and the atmosphere - are invisible.
Farm prices compared
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Index of Prices Received by
Fanners declined one point
during the month ended
Sept. 15, USDA reported last
week. Though prices were
higher for soybeans, cotton
and milk, these gains were
more than offset by lower
prices for cattle, hogs,
potatoes, oranges and wheat.
At $6.65 per bushel,
soybeans were up 58 cents
from a month earlier, $1.33
per bushel above a year ago
and the over-all-oil-bearing
crops index was up nine per
cent from August, 21 per
cent above a year earlier.
All milk sold to plants moved
up 10 cents per hun
dredweight to $9.85. A year
ago, it stood at $9.25 per cwt.
The dairy products index
was up Vz of one per cent
from a month earlier, 6% per
cent above a year ago.
Cattle prices were off 40
cents to average $32.40 per
cwt., were down $2.90 from
Aug. a year ago, they were
bringing $58.60. The meat
animal index t as down three
per cent from Aug., 16 per
cent below a year earlier.
Potato prices declined 92
cents to $3.24 per cwt. A year
ago, they were at $4.04. The
over-all potato-dry bean
index was off 18 per cent
from Aug., 28 per cent below
a year ago.
At $2.88 per bushel, wheat
was down nine cents from
Aug., $1.23 below a year ago.
The over-all food gram index
was down three per cent
By DIETER KRIEG
from a month earlier, 30 per
cent below Sept. 1975.
At 186, the over-all Prices
Received index was Vz of
one per cent (1 point) below
Aug., seven per cent (13
points) below a year earlier.
This marked the third
straight month it has
declined.
The Prices Paid index
remained unchanged at 195
and was five per cent (9
points) above a year earlier.
The ratio of Prices Received
to Prices Paid declined one
point to 95, A year ago, it was
107.
Under the old 1910-14
formula, Prices Received
declined two points to 466. A
year ago, it was 497. Prices
Paid declined one point to
662. A year ago, it was at 631.
And, the parity ration
declined one point to 70 - its
lowest point since Dec. 1971.
A year ago it stood at 79.
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REPORTS
"Understanding clouds - how. why. when, and where they
form, and what shape they take - is an important part of
understanding the atmosphere." states a source at the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
"Whether the vantage point is a .satellite or radar or the
trained eye of an observer, the emphasis is on using present
knowledge of clouds to provide vital weather services, and
on developing new knowledge of clouds as a part of an effort
to improve our comprehension of the air ocean m which we
live," NOAA spokesmen point out
Clouds mark the circulation patterns within our at
mosphere - especially the troposphere or lower levels - and
they therefore allow us to see what has happened and what
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radar on the ground, in the air, and out at sea, cloud patterns
can be studied to determine the birth of storms
Some types of storms and other meteorological phenomena
actually have what is called a "signature ” Once weather
scientists detect it, they can focus their instruments on the
situation and go to work in issuing precise forecasts and
warnings What makes it all possible, again, is the fact that
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